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the reigns of the demi-gods from Orus to the 

 demi-god Jupiter. It is eafy to conceive what 

 credit is to be given to fuch hiftory. Then come 

 the obfcure dynafties of the kings of Thebes, 

 Thin, Memphis, and Heliopolis , and all this 

 brings their hiftory down to the time of Sefoftris, 

 or Sethofis, or Sefac, who reigned in the year 

 of the world 3033. He made many conquefts 

 in Afia, and took Jerufalem in the fifth year of 

 Rehoboam king of Juda. It is here that ma- 

 ny hiftorians quit Marfham, and follow the fyl- 

 tem of Ufher. They begin the hiftory of Egypt 

 with the year of the world 1760 , and confider 

 this kingdom, ift, as under unknown kings dur- 

 ing 1 60 years , 2d. under fix paftoral kings dur- 

 ing 260 years, that is to the year 2180, when 

 Amafis drove out thele royal fhepherds , 3. un- 

 der 48 kings that are named Pharohs, during 

 1299 years, that is to the year 34-9, when 

 Cambyfes king of Perfia conquered Egypt ; 4. 

 under two Perfian kings during 164 years to the 

 year 3673, when Alexander joined Egypt to his 

 other conquefts ; 5. under the Greeks, that is, 

 under Alexander fix years , 6. under 1 3 Ptole- 

 mies and Cleopotni the laft queen of Egypt, dur- 

 ing 294 years, which comes to the year 3974, 

 when Auguftus, after the death of Cleopatra, 

 reduced Eg>pt to a provin< c of the Roman em- 

 , and laftly, 7. under the dominion of the 

 Caliphs and^ the time that Omar 



the feco >!i, or heir of Mahomet, con- 



quered Egypt in the year 6 



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