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portion of the Catalogue with which he was there concerned ter- 

 minates with the reign of Queen Nitocris, the twenty-second in 

 the list. The corrections, indeed, though not hitherto published, 

 were made long before the date (April, 1837) of that Paper, 

 but not before he had adopted the hypothesis therein proposed, 

 as an answer to the old and ever-recurring question Who were 

 the Egyptian sovereigns that were contemporary with Moses ? 

 For it was in consequence of this hypothesis, which had sug- 

 gested itself to him at a very early period, that he was led to 

 examine the Catalogue minutely, in order to discover whether 

 his chronology was affected by its errors. 



Having been led to refer to his hypothesis, Mr. Mac Cullagh 

 took occasion to observe that, in the interval which had elapsed 

 since it was published, he had not met with any facts that were 

 opposed to it : on the contrary, the more he considered it, the 

 more he was inclined to believe in its reality ; though it was 

 entirely different from every other that had been proposed, 

 either by modern chronologers or by the early Fathers of the 

 Church, in their manifold attempts to connect the narrative of 

 Moses with the remaining fragments of Egyptian history. The 

 hypothesis, indeed, is the only one which, while it gives a pro- 

 bable date for the Exodus, also satisfies what Mr. Mac Cullagh 

 conceives to be the necessary conditions of the question ; namely, 

 a very long reign of at least eighty years during which the 

 Israelites were persecuted, succeeded by a very short one 

 apparently not more than a year during which their deliver- 

 ance was wrought ; and it is interesting in itself, on account of 

 the remarkable connexion which it establishes between sacred 

 and profane history, and the highly dramatic character of the 

 events which are thus, for the first time, brought into view. 



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