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should have commenced so late in the season as this; and when we take into 
account that it is not said to have commenced at the beginning of the quater- 
nion, and that it is imtimated that it extended beyond the close of it into the 
thirtieth year of the king, we have, I think, fully sufficient grounds for believing 
that he reigned somewhat about 360 years after the French date, when the 
quaternion would have extended from the latter end of March to the latter end 
of July. 
The third of the facts is of a different nature. It is recorded on a scarabeeus 
in the Louvre, which has been figured by Rosellmi M.R.XLIV.2, that in the 
eleventh year of the reign of Amenothph IIL. the third month and first day, he 
gave orders for the digging of an immense basin, 3000 cubits long, and 600 
cubits broad; and that on the sixteenth day of the same month he celebrated a 
great panegyry of the waters, or of the inundation. We know from various 
Stéles, on which the panegyries observed by the Egyptians are enumerated, that 
they had twenty-four stated ones, occurring on the first and sixteenth days of 
their twelve months; and it can scarcely be doubted, that the panegyry of the 
waters, or the inundation, was that one of this series, which occurred when the 
imundation was at its height, or when the sun was about the middle of Virgo. 
The basin was prepared, while the Nile was yet rising, with a view to its being 
filled by it as it rose ; and when it was full it was used for the celebration of the 
water panegyry. I consider the physical fact of the inundation being at its 
height about the middle of Athyr, in the eleventh year of Amenothph III., to be 
decisive as to the point that he reigned in the former half of the thirteenth 
century before Christ. In the year 1300 B. C., the 16th Athyr would coincide 
with the 27th September ; and this appears to me as late a time as we can sup- 
pose that the festival of the inundation could be celebrated. It is more probable 
that it would be a week or so earlier, which would bring the date down twenty- 
eight years, or thereabouts. According to the French hypothesis, however, of 
the chronology of this period, the eleventh year of Amenothph III. would occur 
in the seventeenth century before Christ, when the month of Athyr would coin- 
cide with December, and, of course, the inundation would be at an end. 
Now, however contrary to prevailing opinions the conclusion at which I have 
arrived may be, I would observe that it is quite consistent with the statement of 
Tacitus, that the appearance of the phcenix (which I shewed in a former paper 
