the Names of the Kings of the other two Kingdoms.

There is one Difficulty, which I wish our very learned Author had confidered and dif cuffed for us, and that is, that the Catalogues of the Kings of three of the four Kingdoms are too long to come within the Intervals of Time, which the true Chronology of the World can allow for them. For to begin with lower Egypt: Menes or the Mizraim of Mofes (a) came into this Country about A. M. 1772 (b): It was a Fen or Marth in his Time (c), and he does not feem to have made a long Stay in it: He went forward and built Memphis (d); afterwards, 124 Years after the Difperfion of Mankind (e), A. M. 1881, he went into. the Country of Thebais: after having made Settlements here, he seems to have come back and formed a Kingdom in lower Egypt 35 Years before his Death; for Menes ftands recorded King of this Country only 35 Years (f); if so, then this Kingdom was founded about A. M. 1908 (g): The Paftors came into Egypt about A. M. 2420 (b): The Interval is 512 Years: But the 25 Kings of lower Egypt abovementioned reigned 701 Years; i. e. 189 Years longer than we can find a Space of Time for them. In like manner, 2. If we confider the Theban Kings: Mizraim came into this

B. 4.

(b) Ibid.

(c) Herodot. 1. 2. (e) Apollodor. in Eufeb. Chron. p. Ο Μεσραϊμ ὁ καὶ Μήνης ἔτη λέ. Syn(g) Menes died A. M. 1943. See Vol. 1. B. 4.

(a) See Vol. 1. C. 4. (d) Id. c. 99. 18. Syncell. p. 147. cell. p. 91.

(b) See Vol. 2. B2 7.

Country

Country A. M. 1881 (1), let us from this Year begin the Computation of his Reign or Kingdom: From this Year to A. M. 2420, the Year of the Invafion of the Paftors are 539 Years; but the Reigns of the Theban Kings from Menes to the 12 Year after (k) the Decease of Achefcus Ocaras the Predeceffor of Nitocris are 682 Years; fo that this Catalogue reaches down beyond the Incurfion of the Paftors 170 Years. 3. The Kingdom of This is recorded to begin from the 62 Year before the Death of Menes (k); from the Year of the Rise of the Kingdom of Thebes A. M. 1881: The Reigns of the Kings of This amount to 593 Years (); but from A. M. 1881 to 2420, the Year of the Paftors, are but, as I faid, 539 Years; fo that this Catalogue is too long by 54 Years. As to the Kingdom of Memphis, a better Account of that seems to offer itself to

us.

Menes entred Egypt A. M. 1772 (m): He ftayed but a little while in the lower Egypt, perhaps about 3 Years, until he had formed Zoan a little Town, which was built 7 Years after Hebron in Canaan (n); here he might plant a few Inhabitants, and go forward and build Noph or Memphis higher up the Country, and defigning to go himself a further Progrefs, he might make his Son Toferthrus, or Naphtu

(i) Vid. quæ fup. and Vol. 1. B. 4. (k) We must compute in this manner, if we allow Achefcus Ocaras to have been the fame Perfon with Mentefuphis who was Nitocris's Predeceffor in the Memphite Catalogue, and fuppofe Nitocris to have reigned 12 Years at Memphis, and then being obliged to quit that Country by the Paftors, to have reigned afterwards 6 Years at Thebes. (k) African. in Syncell. p. 54. (1) Vid. Tab. fen. Can. (m) Vid. quæ fup, (n) Numb. xiii. 22.

bim (0) the firft Governour or King of this City about A. M. 1777, accordingly the Reigns in the Memphite Dynafties begin not from Menes but from Toferthrus (p). The Sum of the Reigns from the first Year of Toferthrus to the Iz of Nitocris are 643 Years, which, if we count down from A. M. 1777, will bring us to A. M. 2420, the Year in which I fuppofe, the Paftors entred Egypt, and reduced this Kingdom. Thus the Memphite Succeffion very fully accords to true Chronology, and probably, if the other Succeffions were carefully examined, a little Pains would enable us to bring them to an Agreement with it. For

The Catalogue of Meftræan Kings exceeds indeed in Length about 189 Years; but I apprehend fome Interpolations made by Syncellus are the Cause of it. Three of the Reigns, the

5,

6 and are mere Numbers without Names of Kings annexed to them: And Serapis the 7 King, Sefonchofis the 8 (r), Amanemes (s) and Amafis the io (t), are all Names of Kings inferted here by Syncellus to lengthen the Catalogue, fo as to make it fuit his Scheme of Chronology: Syncellus took great Liberties in this

(0) See Vol. 1. B. 4. Gen. x. 13. African. in Syncell. P. 56. (r) Sefonchofis was the fame Perfon as Sefoftris. Vid. Scholiaft. in Apoll. Argonaut. ver. 272. p. 411. and lived in a much later Age. (s) Amanemes is again repeated by Syncellus, and is his LV King. (t) Amafis is bis LXXXV111. He dif guifes the Repetition of the Names of Amanemes and Amafis, by giving different Numbers of Years to their Reigns; but we have no reafon to think there were fuch Kings in this Age,

manner

manner (u): The Numbers of Years affixed to all thefe Reigns amount to the 189: If we therefore strike out thefe Reigns, we reduce the Catalogue to a true measure. I would not be too tedious to the Reader, and shall therefore leave it to him, if he cares to enter deeper into this Subject, to confider, whether the Theban and Thinite Catalogues may not be as well adjusted, if they be examined and corrected in a proper manner.

From the Paftors invading and completing their Conquests in Egypt, our learned Author confiders the Country as parted into but two Kingdoms: The Paftors poffeffed the Land of Memphis, and of Tanis or lower Egypt; the Thebans, whom the Paftors did not conquer, held their own Country, and had added the Land of This to it: Africanus indeed fuggests a Dynafty of Elephantine Kings, fuppofing nine Succeffions of them (w): Elephantis was a remote City in the most fouthern Parts of Egypt (x), above 200 Miles higher up into the Country than Thebes or Diofpolis (y): The Names of Kings supposed to be of this Kingdom, have a great Similitude with thofe of the Kings of This, and perhaps fome little Companies of Thinites, when the Thebans conquered their Country, might travel into this distant Region, and plant themselves here, and build a City, and

(u) Reges comminifcitur, annofq; et fucceffiones mutilat vel extendit, prout ipfi vifum eft, magnâ nominum, magnâ numerorum Interpolatione. Marfham. Can. Chron. p. 7. (w) African. Dynaft. v. in Syncell. p. 57. (x) Herodot. lib. 2. c. 17, 18, 29. (y) Id. c. 9.

have a quiet Enjoyment of it, for above two Centuries (z): We find no Hiftory, nor any thing recorded of thefe Elephantines, and probably after having lived for the Space abovementioned in a little independent Society, at the End of that Term, the Thebans extending and enlarging their Country, they might at last become a City or District of their Kingdom. The following Table will give the Reader a View of Sir John Marsham's Continuation of the Theban Kings, and of the Succeffion of the Paftor Reigns until the Paftors were expelled Egypt.

(x) The Reigns fuppofed by Africanus to belong to this Dynafty, amount to 218 Years.

II. TABLE