262 TRANS. OF THE ACAD. OF SCIENCE. 
bes, t 
) Sooner or later, it will be a problem to 
reéstablish the genuine text of the very ancient holy books of 
the tians; and for that purpose it must first of all be « 
cided to what redaction the single manuscripts of that ki 
belong. As oe where Athothis, the author of the sact 
Egyptian books, 700 years after the Deluge, _—? was t 
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phitie ies, rob eferehes!: dn ve same way, the origi- 
nal i copie the Ne ence, was reéstablished; for rte 
Critics, first of all, divided the manuscripts into 
to their countries; and then, on the g 
oo the different local redactions, the genuine 
ae lly, the seal of Ahabanuke brings to light in 
ani owen lived, and in what age the great manuscript of 
Turin was written. The king, wh e minister Ahabanuke 
Beetosaamens or Set-huro, and Manetho’s Catalogue con- 
te me, — the first. king 
