The Author. — Before the discussion commences, I wish to read a letter 

 from Monsieur Naville, to whom I sent a proof of my paper. After a 

 careful perusal of it, Monsieur Naville, in the commentary he has forwarded, 

 only takes exception to three or four points. Upon one or two of these you 

 will see that I have not expressed myself with any degree of certainty, and 

 when the discussion is in print I hope to reply to Monsieur Naville's letter 

 in detail. It is dated " Malaguy, near Geneva, November 24," and contains 

 the following remarks : — 



P. 74. It seems to me beyond any doubt that the so-called Hyksos 

 monuments are of an earlier date. I think anybody who has seen the ruins 

 of San will come to the same conclusion. They belonged to a group of 

 statues and other monuments of the twelfth and thirteenth dynasties, which 

 were together at the entrance of the great temple, and several of which have 

 been left on the spot. Nearly all the monuments have been usurped later, 

 sometimes twice over, by kings of the nineteenth, twentieth, or twenty-first 

 dynasties, who did the same as Apepi had done before them. If Apepi had 

 erected the sphinxes which have been attributed to him, he would not have 

 engraved his name so negligently on one of the shoulders, so that it might 

 easily be rubbed off. 



P. 77. I do not agree with you on Seti I. having dug the canal of the 

 Ouadi Tunnlat. At present we have not found anything more ancient than 

 Ptameses II., and it is likely that he built the cities and dug the canal at the 

 same time. As far as I can judge at present, the route of Seti I. is not 

 through the Ouadi Tumilat ; it is the northern route which went througli 

 Tauis in the direction towards the Mediterranean and Gaza. It is on tliat 



route that we shall find the site of (6^ , and I think I know 



where, only I do not feel at liberty to name the spot without quoting tlie 

 text on which my evidence rests. The Israelites issuing from Succoth wouhl 

 not come near Zar. 



P. 74. I should not say that in good likelihood Ea-sekenen had seen 

 Joseph, and, perhaps, Jacob. We have no reason to assail the testimony of 

 the Syncellus, saying that the Pharao of Joseph was Apepi ; but the war 

 which broke out between the two kings nuist have been after Joseph's deatli. 

 The Scripture describes the time when Joseph lived as a time of peace, and 

 it is not likely that there was nuich intercourse between two sovereigr.s of a 

 (liilerent race altogether. 



P. 80. As for the Egyptian name of !Moscs, I believe it tj be [T| 1 ^X\ 



"^ fn V <^' "^^^^^^^^ means a child, a boy. The Hebrews transcribed 

 it in a form which gave to the word a Hebrew meaning, as it is very often 

 the case. As for the name of Osarsiph, it is very possible that it has been 

 given to Moses, but I should think not when he was a boy, but late in life, 

 when he had been instructed in the sciences and religion of the Egyptians 



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