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nearly the same kings, and in the same order, as 

 those of which Manetho composes his eighteenth 

 dynasty, that which expelled the shepherds. 

 The concordance, however, is not complete: in 

 the painting of Abydos, six of. the names that 

 appear in Manetho's list are wanting ; there are 

 some, again, which bear no resemblance ; and, last- 

 ly, there unfortunately occurs a blank before the 

 most remarkable of all, the Rhamses, who appears 

 the same as the king represented on many of the 

 finest monuments, with the attributes of a great 

 conqueror. It would be, according to M. Cham- 

 pollion, in the list of Manetho, the Sethos, the 

 chief of the nineteenth dynasty, who, in fact, is 

 indicated as powerful in ships and in cavalry, and 

 as having carried his arms into Cyprus, Media 

 and Persia. M. Champollion thinks, with Mar- 

 sham and many others, that it is this Rhamses, 

 or this Sethos, who is the Sesostris, or the Sesoo- 

 sis of the Greeks ; and this opinion possesses some 

 probability, in this respect, that the representa- 

 tions of the victories of Rhamses, probably carried 

 over the wandering tribes in the vicinity of Egypt, 

 or at the most into Syria, have given rise to those 

 fabulous ideas of vast conquests attributed, by 

 some other confusion, to a Sesostris. But, in 

 Manetho, it is in the twelfth dynasty, and not in 

 the eighteenth, that a prince bearing the name of 

 Sesostris is inscribed, who is noted as having con- 



