Hekekyan: A treatise on the chronology of Siriadic monuments: demonstrating that the Egyptian dynasties of Manetho are records of astrological Nile observations which have been continued to the present time (London, 1863)

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populous and powerful, have been maintained in the
enjoyment of those blessings so long as the work done
by mud-depositing rivers and torrents continued to be
regulated by geological observations. It is conjectured
that in the time of the Etruscans the Italian marshes re-
mained flourishing provinces during many centuries in
succession. Traditional rules and customs have perished
with the inhabitants. And in succeeding times, when
any one of those maritime marshes was reclaimed, its
restoration to health and productiveness has been com-
paratively shortlived—apparently from the science of
Khemy having been entirely forgotten.

The astrogeological science gave birth to a monu-
mental system, by means of which the fruits of the
accumulated observations and experiences of the human
race have been preserved, outliving writings, inscrip-
tions, traditions, and nationalities. The principal monu-
ments had imparted to them the essential property of
being autochronous landmarks of a geochronological
nature. Many of them recorded, hydromathematically,
the knowledge in astronomy, in geography, and in the
dimensions and figure of the earth obtained in their re-
spective epochs. They were Siriadic monuments, be-
cause their magistral lines were projected to the scale of
the revolutions of the cycles of the star Surios in terms
of the standard astrogeological cubit. It is the star
Sirius; the same being known by the appellations of
Seth, Sothis, Ptha or P-theos, and other homophonous
words.