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reverse of blocks of stone, the fronts of which bear the name of king Horus of 
the eighteenth dynasty. It was assumed by these writers, that these blocks had 
been overthrown by the Hykshos, at the time of their invasion ; and, of course, 
that the kings in question reigned previous to it ; and as ‘the captives on the 
sandals’’ (which had been heretofore supposed to represent the Hykshos, and to 
have been first used on the occasion of their expulsion), appear on the monu- 
ments of these kings, these French writers have imagined, that they had dis- 
covered evidence of another invasion of barbarians, anterior to that of the Hyk- 
shos, of which the legend of Typhon was a memorial. The inconsistency of all 
this with the chronology of the Bible is apparent. In reply to it, I stated, that 
the kings in question were the immediate predecessors of Horus ; or, to speak 
more correctly, were rival kings, who held Thebes in opposition to him for a 
few years, during which the blocks on which their names appear were sculptured. 
One of them, the king whose tomb is in the western valley at Thebes, and of 
whom the name has not yet been deciphered in a satisfactory manner, died ; and 
the other, Amenothph IV., who changed his name to Vach-en-aten, i.e., the 
Adorer of the Sun’s Disk, was at length subdued by Horus, who defaced all his 
monuments, as well as those of his predecessor. ‘Thus the interval between the 
sculpturing of the two faces of these blocks was really a less number of years 
than the French writers have supposed it to be of centuries! Of these state- 
ments I have not given proofs. The evidence which I have collected appears to 
me, however, to amount to a complete demonstration of what I have stated ; and, 
should circumstances permit me to continue my attention to Egyptian literature, 
I hope to lay it before the public, together with some other observations that I 
have made respecting the mode of determining the succession of Egyptian kings. 
In the same paper on the Stéle, I threw out some other suggestions, tending 
to depress the chronological epochs of the dynasties. I stated my belief that 
the kings in the former part of the Tablet of Abydos belonged to the twelfth 
dynasty of Manetho, in place of the sixteenth and seventeenth; the five inter- 
mediate dynasties between that and the eighteenth being contemporary with 
others, or altogether fictitious. I mentioned it too, as a possible supposition, that 
some of the dynasties between the eighteenth and the twenty-second were in like 
manner to be omitted; and that the epoch of the eighteenth dynasty might, 
therefore, be much later than it has been calculated to be on the supposition that 
