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near Bailos (Belbeis) was not cultivated, but left as pasture 
for cattle because of the strangers.” ‘Thus there was only 
a short distance between the royal residence and the territory 
allotted to the Hebrews. Joseph settled his family near him- 
self, in the part of the country which was best fitted for the 
breeding of cattle, and where probably dwelt the herds of the 
king, with the keeping of which they were entrusted. 
But the Hyksos domination was drawing towards its close, 
and it is likely that Apepi was the last of the foreign rulers. 
We have only very scanty information on the wars which 
broke out between the native princes who had maintained 
themselves in Upper Egypt and the foreign invaders. In 
spite of the successes of the kings of the Seventeenth 
dynasty, Sekenen-Ra and Amosis, the expulsion of the 
Hyksos and the restoration of the Egyptian rule over the 
Delta took place only gradually. A queen of the Highteenth 
dynasty alludes in one of her inscriptions to the harm done 
to the country by the strangers, and which she endeavoured 
to repair. An alleged proof of the fact that the Hgyptian 
dominion was not yet regularly re-established was the supposed 
total absence of monuments of the Highteenth dynasty in the 
Delta. Until now there was only one known,—a stone serpent 
found at Benha,—or a few scarabs of Amenophis III. dug out 
by the fellaheen at Tel Basta. The desire to settle, if possible, 
the question of the presence of the Highteenth dynasty in 
the Delta, was one of the chief reasons which induced me to 
dig at Bubastis; and in this respect my expectation has not 
been disappointed ; we have discovered important monuments 
of the Highteenth dynasty at Tel Basta. Last summer, also, 
the fellaheen came across a large tablet of the same dynasty 
at Samanood, further north. In both places the monuments 
are later than Thothmes III. It seems very probable that 
the final conquest of the Delta, and the complete expulsion of 
the Hyksos, dates from the great wars of Thothmes III., justly 
called “the great,” or sometimes the Alexander of Egypt. 
His campaigns had lasting results, not only in Egypt, but 
also abroad, as we know now from the curious find of cunei- 
form tablets made by the Arabs at Tel el Amarna last year,— 
that under the successors of Thothmes III. a great many Syrian 
cities were still tributary to Egypt, and had Egyptian 
governors. ‘The most ancient mention of a king of the High- 
teenth dynasty, at Bubastis, is on a stone of Amenophis II., 
who is sculptured standing before Amon Ra and making him 
offerings. We notice here, as under the following kings, that 
the chief, divinity of the place is not Bast, but Amon. The 
king of the Highteenth dynasty, who seems to have taken the 
