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ANASTASI III. 67
nology of the nineteenth dynasty has been dis-
covered by the English mind in the works of either
of these gentlemen. Now, the simplicity of Miss
Corbaux's matter-of-fact method of proceeding will
raise a smile at the expense of her learned prede-
cessors, but will commend itself, I imagine, to the
common sense of her countrymen. When dates
have been gravely propounded which, if correct,
would require that several successive kings of Egypt
should have been born when their fathers were six
years old, she demurs to such a result, and points
out the importance of the principle of average
length of generations. And secondly, she alone
seems to have made the very obvious remark, that
when we possess in our museums a tablet of any
given date, representing, let us suppose, a king
with so many grown up sons, in battle or festival,
the said king must have been certainly old enough
to have had such sons at the date of the occurrence
represented. For the details of her system I refer
to her own works. The question I am here con-
cerned with is, Whether- Meneptah can have reigned
with and for his father, which this papyrus ap-
pears not quite certainly, but most probably, to
state. Now, it appears that from the birth of
Thothmes III. (contemporary with Joseph), to
that of Eameses III., there were about 208 years,
and certainly ten generations, and that, therefore,
any system which either gives less than 208 years,
or more than ten generations for this interval, must
be radically faulty. That in 208 years there should
be ten lineal generations is just and only just pos-
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nology of the nineteenth dynasty has been dis-
covered by the English mind in the works of either
of these gentlemen. Now, the simplicity of Miss
Corbaux's matter-of-fact method of proceeding will
raise a smile at the expense of her learned prede-
cessors, but will commend itself, I imagine, to the
common sense of her countrymen. When dates
have been gravely propounded which, if correct,
would require that several successive kings of Egypt
should have been born when their fathers were six
years old, she demurs to such a result, and points
out the importance of the principle of average
length of generations. And secondly, she alone
seems to have made the very obvious remark, that
when we possess in our museums a tablet of any
given date, representing, let us suppose, a king
with so many grown up sons, in battle or festival,
the said king must have been certainly old enough
to have had such sons at the date of the occurrence
represented. For the details of her system I refer
to her own works. The question I am here con-
cerned with is, Whether- Meneptah can have reigned
with and for his father, which this papyrus ap-
pears not quite certainly, but most probably, to
state. Now, it appears that from the birth of
Thothmes III. (contemporary with Joseph), to
that of Eameses III., there were about 208 years,
and certainly ten generations, and that, therefore,
any system which either gives less than 208 years,
or more than ten generations for this interval, must
be radically faulty. That in 208 years there should
be ten lineal generations is just and only just pos-
F 2