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Chapter VIII.

CHRONOLOGY OF THE KINGS OF EGYPT.

Having already extended the bulk of this work
beyond the limits I at first proposed, it will be
necessary to compress my historical notice of an-
cient Egypt within the smallest compass the nature
of the subject will allow, and confine myself chiefly
to the mention of those monarchs whose names
appear on the monuments, noticing merely the
principal occurrences of their reigns, in the form of
a chronological table.

In introducing some of the names given by Ma-
netho and Eratosthenes, I neither pretend to fix
the precise era of their reigns, nor the actual suc-
cession of those kings; nor can I follow Manetho
in the division of his first dynasties, which have
every appearance, owing probably to the inaccu-
racies of his copyists, of having been greatly mis-
placed. Indeed, the fifteenth, sixteenth, and seven-
teenth, do not at all accord with the names remain-
ing on the monuments, if, as there is every reason
to induce us to admit, the eighteenth contains the
same series of kings mentioned by that author.

With respect to the shepherd-kings, there is a
considerable difficulty in fixing the exact era of
their invasion, while some suppose it to be merely