^EIMITIVE HISTORY OP THE lONIANS. 579 



io tlie lines of Jerachmeel and Salma, thus completing the scheme of 

 /early Egyptian, and with it, to a great extent, of early universal 

 Jiistory. Meanwhile I await the verdict of those scholars, whose 

 istudies and researches qualify them to weigh and adjudicate upon 

 the evidence which it has been my task, briefly, yet, I trust, with 

 fairness, and a certain amount of perspicuity, to lay before them 

 .eoncerning the primitiv-e history of the lonians. 



ireineiubered, however, that generations vary greatly in length, so that contemporaEeousness 

 .cannot always be predicte<.l in accordance with the same nuniher of descents froni a common 

 .ancestor. Also, it is not stated in Chronicles that Meonothai was the son of Hathath. He may 

 ,>jave been her grandson through a daughter, and tlms be a generation later. Here, however, as 

 elsewhere, I have simply given the .results of my inductive process, which embraces the 

 genealogies ,of Chronicles, the Egyptian records, monumental and traditionary, with the 

 jnythologieal and other data furnished by the scrifitures of the civilized Asiaiie and European 

 ■ peoples, and have not sought to make them square with any system whatsoever. In view of 

 jthe great obscurity of early history I have merely endeavoured, "parum Claris lucem dare," 

 ■?ad shall be well satisfied, though much be swept away by judicious criticism on the part of 

 ithose who are qualifled to criticise, if the residuum of truth help forward the toaowledge of th^ 

 ■:ffori<J's ancieot record. ^ 



