the Thebans conquered their country, might travel into this distant region, and plant themselves here, and build a city, and have a quiet enjoyment of it, for above two centuries. We find no history, nor any thing recorded of these Elephantines, and, probably, after having lived for the space above mentioned 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 succession of the Pastor reigns until the Pastors were expelled Egypt.

The reigns supposed by Africanus to belong to this dy nasty, amount to two hundred and eighteen years.

Sir John Marsham passes over this reign, there being no name annexed to it, and supposes that Nilus succeeded Mercury, and Eratosthenes' Catalogue contained but thirty. seven kings. Can. p. 94. 238.

It may be here remarked, that both Manetho and Afri canus (see Chronograph. in Syncell. p. 52. African. Dyn. p. 71.) stile this dynasty Tanite. But to this it may be answered, that the Pastors, possessing the land of Tanis or lower Egypt, were the Tanite kings of these times.

Misphragmuthosis, or Alisfragmuthosis, gave the Pastors a great overthrow in battle, and shut them up in Abaris, where he confined them by a close siege." His son was

45. Tuthmosis .... 9 years 8 months.

The Pastors capitulated with this king at his coming to the crown, and surrendered upon condition to be suffered to march out of Egypt. Next to Tuthmosis or Tummosis, reigned

46. Amenophis 30 years 10 months.

In the reign of this king the Pastors invaded Egypt again, and for thirteen years dispossessed him of his kingdom; but at the end of that term Amenophis came with an army, and entirely conquered them, and expelled them Egypt for ever,' and at this their second expulsion, the 511 years are computed to end, during which the pastors are said to have held Egypt.*

Joseph. contra Ap. lib. 1. c. 14.

26. 28. Marsham Can. Chronic. p. 318.

Id. ibid.

The Pastor reigns above mentioned, from Salatis to Zet, amount to 478 years 10 months, the reign of Tuthmosis is

years 8 months. If the Pastors invaded Egypt again in

VOL. III.

After this second expulsion of the pastors, Sir John Marsham adds the following Theban kings sole monarchs of all Egypt.

Years M.

The reader has now before him a view of Sir John Marsham's scheme from the beginning of the reigns of the Egyptian kings down to his Sesostris or Sesac. And if he will take the pains thoroughly to examine it, if he will take it in pieces into all his parts, review the materials of which it is formed, consider how they lie in the authors from whom they are taken, and what manner of collecting and disposing them is made use of, he will find, that however in some lesser points a variation from our very learned author may be defensible; yet no tolerable scheme can be formed of the ancient Egyptian history, which does not in the main

the 10th year of Amenophis, and were totally conquered 13 years after; this conquest of them will indeed fall 511 years from the first year of Salatis.

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agree with him. Sir John Marsham has led us to a clear and natural place for the name of every Egyptian king and time of his reign, who is mentionod, by either Eratosthenes, Africanus from Manetho, Josephus, or Syncellus, which we can reasonably, think had a real place in the Egyptian history; for as to the name of the king in Africanus x dynasty, called a dynasty of kings of Heracleopolis, Manetho made no such dynasty." Africanus found out one of the names of the kings of it. Heracleotis, Heracleopolis or, Heroopoljs was a city of lower Egypt, near one of the mouths or outlets of the Nile into the sea. Perhaps it was a town not immediately reduced by the Pastors, and its holding out, and preserving its liberty for some time, might occasion the writers of after-ages to think it had been an independent kingdom, who endeavoured to form dynasties of its kings. In like manner we may remark concerning Africanus' xxii dynasty, which he calls Bubastite. Bubastus was a city of lower Egypt, probably governed by magistrates, deputies to the Pastors, or it might perhaps revolt from the Tanite or Pastor-kings, when the Thebans began to weaken and distress them, and become a free town, and have governors of its own for some successions towards the end of the times of the Pastors being in Egypt; and some mention of this sort having been made of it, might occasion after-writers to number its magistrates