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TRAVELS TO DISCOVER 



LIST of the KINGS of ABYSSINIA, 



FROM 



MAQUEDA, QUEEN OF SABA, TO THE NATIVITY. 



Menilek fucceeded to the throne in the 986th year before 

 Chrift ; and this number of years muft be exhausted in the 

 reign of thefe twenty-two kings, when each reign, in that 

 cafe, will amount to more than forty-four years, which is 

 impoffible. The reign of the twenty-one kings of Ifrael, at 

 a medium, is a little more than twenty-two years at an aver- 

 age, and that is thought abundantly high. And, even up- 

 on that footing of comparifon, there will be wanting a great 

 deal more than half the number of years between Menilek 

 and Bazen, fo that this account is apparently falfe. But 

 I have another very material objection to it, as well as the 



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