42S TRANS. ST. LOUIS ACAD. SCIENCE. 



A more exact computation will alter our longitudes of the 

 planets by a few minutes or degrees, which makes, however, no 

 difference at all concerning the year and the day of the observa- 

 tion. The observer's place, moreover was Tanis, the ancient |yif 

 (koan), on the eastern boundaries of the Delta, where, as Mane- 

 tho reports, Menes resided and reigned. The time of the obser- 

 vation was probably midnight in Tanis, because at that time the 

 stars were most clearly visible. 



In conclusion, I challenge all Egyptologists to demonstrate, by 

 means of their astronomical friends, that the aforesaid 14 astro- 

 nomical inscriptions refer to the year -6467, or -5867, or_5773, 

 or -5702, or -5652, or -5613, or -5303, or -4915, or -4890, 

 or -4455, or -4400, or -4175, or -3895, or -3892, &c., to 

 which different years the Champollionists have referred Menes. 

 The only man who commenced Egyptian history with the true 

 year was the late Prof. Dr. M. Uhlemann, at Gottingen. It is to 

 be lamented that this distinguished scholar, who was much better 

 <jualified to promote Egyptian philology than all the Champol- 

 lionists together — the author of the best Coptic Grammar, and 

 many other valuable works — who understood Hebrew and all 

 ■other languages necessary in translating Egyptian works of litera- 

 ture — who, being endowed with good common sense, continually 

 refuted Egyptian absurdities, and defended my little discoveries 

 against the unclean hands of filibusters ; — that such a man died 

 in the bloom of life I cannot but deplore, and must not fail, on 

 this occasion, to lay upon the grave of my honored friend the well 

 merited wreath of laurel. 



Concerning myself, should the Champollionists finally convince 

 me that there exists any man on earth, or power in heaven, to 

 change the multiplication table, and to bring Menes to another 

 year than that of 2780 B.C., 666 years subsequent to the deluge, 

 I will sing with Horatius, 



'■Exegi monumentuin aere perennius"; 



not claiming any merit, but because the melancholy drama, called 

 "Manetho," lately so ingeniously reenacted by Lepsius, has 

 played out forever. 



2. Planetary Configurations of Pharaoh Horus of the XVIIIth Dyn.^ 

 1780 B.C., Plate I. 1. viii. 



The planetary configuration represented on our Plate, 1. viii., 



