10 Rev. Epwarp Hincxs on the Age of the Eighteenth Dynasty of Manetho. 
nine months assigned by Manetho to Thothmos III., whom he calls Mephres, 
are to be counted. They extended a short way into his forty-second year of 
nominal sovereignty. His son, Amenothph II. reigned about 1314 B.C. His 
son, Thothmos IV., the Thmosis of Manetho, commenced his reign about 1288 
B.C.; and his sons, Amenothph III. and Amuntuonkh, reigned about 1279 
B.C. The former of these died about 1248 B.C., and then commenced that 
struggle between the rival worships of Amun and of the Sun’s Disk, which con- 
vulsed Upper Egypt for several years, and occasioned the loss of almost the whole 
of the foreign conquests of the preceding monarchs. 
I have not yet been able to ascertain the interval between the death of 
Amenothph III. and the accession of Rameses the Great ; nor am I prepared to 
give the proof of the statements which I have last made ; as they partly depend 
on some general propositions, which I have established by induction from a num- 
ber of passages on monuments. Before making these propositions public, I am 
desirous not only of making the inductive proof as complete as possible, but also 
of collecting together as many of the corollaries from them as I can. 
