368 TRANS. OF THE ACAD. OF SCIENCE. 
ia! the ancient world does not, in n consequence 0 of the 
ss of transcribers, contain a single figure that, boing hee 
ei very reliable. Manetho specifies also the number of the 
rears of the government of the kings from Menes down to 
Ramses Meiamun; but powain is —_ a discrepancy mi 
Annes 
derent'y 
- The question still is, then, in what time the said Phaede 
reigned in Egypt, and in what year the deceased was really 
born ; re this date can not be made out exactly but by ihe 
tary configuration observed during his birth-year, which 
and many other monuments mentioned 
will be easy to make out, in what 
planets stood at that time, at th _ 
astronomic images, | 
d na or aid pF other a 
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