384 TRANS. OF THE ACAD. OF SCIENCE. 
new, viz., the XVIIIth Dynasty. As, then, this Dynasty, 
down to Ramses’ death, in 1606 B. C., governed during 298 
years, ae ry king, Amos, must have been upon the throne 
about 1904 B. C.; j consequently, the Israelites left Egyph nob 
as is u siversally supposed, in 1500 B. C., but 400 years 
lier, exactly in 1867 B. C., as ilies from. the detailed Bibl. 
faneodiing Biblical morse are to be at earlier by 400 years, 
as the planetary configurations, referring to the deluge and 
the ages of the world, confirm. This matter has been treat- 
in extenso in my Chronologia Sacra and the Sa ogee 
Recent. Discoveries. 
4 . tnoetance 
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of the necessity of eden the cil inaetary tables. The 
longitude of Jupiter in Cancer is, according to Lalande’s 
Tables, as we have seen, too great by four heir as my 
‘ulation however, i is not exact, and the pert rturbations ations of 
Jupiter sometimes are — I drop the inv meee 
yeaa this planet. As to th a enees ge ai : 
pom thn as many, mies mon iia 
mine the places of the planets ra era nicety of mits — 
; ted a mistake renege ie 
ameters of the full Moon; and, since very im 
~ eations of a ing year depended, according 
lief, on the position tion of god of the Moon, aatly. 
they 9 _ not have carelessly ao the. Moon 
y ents paar se" 
that observation, viz. about sunset, is equal oii 
he Moo stood — degrees East from che Soa sh : 
place one hour _ twenty minutes: after that 1a 
ax neglected; consequently, the Moon P 
