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founded the firft Dynafty of the Shepherds, who behaved 

 very cruelly, and wrefted the lands from their firft owners; 

 and it was this Dynafty that Sefoftris deftroyed, after calling 

 Thebes by his father's name, Ammon No, making thofe de- 

 corations that we have feen of the harp in the fepulchres on 

 the weft, and building Diofpolis on the oppofite fide of the 

 river. The fecond conqueft of Egypt by the Shepherds 

 was that under Sabaco, by whom it has been imagined 

 Thebes was deftroyed, in the reign of Hezekiah king of 

 Judah, who is faid to have made peace with So * king of 

 Egypt, as the tranflator has called him, miftaking So for 

 the name of the king, whereas it only denoted his quality 

 of fhepherd. 



From this it is plain, all that the fcripture mentions a- 

 bout Ammon No, applies to Diofpolis on the other fide of 

 the river. Ammon No and Diofpolis, though they were on 

 different fides of the river, were confidered as one city, 

 thro' which the Nile flowed, dividing it into two parts. This 

 is plain from profane hiftory, as well as from the prophet 

 Nahum f, who defcribes it very exa&ly, if in place of the 

 wordy^z was fubftituted river> as it ought to be. 



There was a third invafion of the Shepherds after the 

 building of Memphis, where a % king of Egypt § is faid to 

 have inclofed two hundred and forty thoufand of them in 

 a city called Abaris ; they furrendered upon capitulation, 

 and were banifhed the country into the land of Canaan. 

 That two hundred and forty thoufand men fhould be 



inclofed 



* 2 Kings, xvii. 4. f Nahum, chap. iii. 8. % Mifphragmuthofis. § Manethon, 



Apud. Jofephum Apion. lib. i.p. 460. 



