186 . On (he Elucidation of 



palace at Karnac, — and the Taracus of Manetho, and T.h.r.k 

 of hieroglyphic inscriptions existing in Ethiopia and in Egypt*, 

 .In respect to the connexion of the events of the Jewish and 

 Egyptian histories, the period between the expulsion of the 

 Phoenicians and the reign of Sesostris possesses a peculiar in-^ 

 terest, as being that of the residence of the Israelites in Egypt, 

 and of the Exodus. In the history of Josephus^ we have an 

 extract from Manetho, in which this latter event is expressly 

 stated to have taken place under the father of Sesostris, a king 

 whose nam6, in Manetho' s list, is Amenophis, (the third of that 

 name,) and on the monuments Ramses. The date which chro- 

 nologists are generally agreed in assigning to the Exodus is 

 1491 ; that of the termination of the reign of Amenophis, ac- 

 cording to Champollion, is 1473, or, if the correction of his 

 chronology which we have suggested in a note be just, 1478 : 

 it is singular that the difference of thirteen years (between 1491 

 and 1478) should be precisely the duration of a very suspicious 

 interval which Manetho states to have taken place, after Ame- 

 nophis had gone with his army in pursuit of the Israelites; and 

 during which interval neither the king nor his army returned to 



* It appears to us that a flight inaccuracy has crept into the deduc- 

 tion of all the dates in M. Champollion's Chronology subsequent to the 

 expulsion of the shepherds. The date of that event is the foundation of 

 the subsequent dates, and is supposed to have taken place B.C. 1822; 

 after which, according to the extract of Manetho in Josephus cited by 

 M. Champollion, Thoutmosis, the king by whom they had been expelled, 

 reigned 25 years and 4 months, followed by the other kings of the 

 eighteenth dynasty, making altogether 342 years and 9 months : (in- 

 bluding the 2 years and 2 months additional of Horus, in compliance 

 with the version of the passage in the Armenian text of the Chronicle of 

 Eusebius.) This number, 342 years and 9 months, falling short of 

 the 348 years attributed to the eighteenth dynasty in Eusebius and 

 Syncellus, M. ChampoUion has suggested that Thoutmosis may have 

 reigned the five years which constitute the difference, before the ex- 

 pulsion of the shepherds, since, according to the record, he did reign, 

 some years before that event, over all "the parts of Egypt not pos- 

 sessed by the shepherds. So far, so well : but in such case, the year 

 B.C. 1822, being the epoch of the expulsion of the shepherds, arid not of 

 the commencement of the eighteenth dynasty, must surely correspond to 

 the fifth year of the reign of Thoutmosis, and not to the first, as M. 

 Champollion makes it. We have hesitated to venture this remark on a 

 matter to which M. Champollion mu,st have given so much attention, 

 believing that mistake in us is much more probable than an accidental 

 inadvertence in him ; but we have returned frequently to the consider- 

 ation, without having been able to satisfy ourselves ; and the rectifica- 

 tiou of our mistake, if it is one, may prevent others falling intp the same. 



