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most likely came by sea from Asia .Minor. They obtained 

 and kept the ruling power, the Pharaonic crown and ; 

 hood, for ages, in their hands, although they were neither the 

 authors of the civilization, nor of the religious doctrines of the 

 land. The enormous army, with excessive privileges, main- 

 tained by the state, and forces often called in from abroad 

 warrant this opinion. The conjecture is strengthened by the 

 prohibition the government gave to all marine enterprise on 

 the Red Sea, and the early and long continuance of suprem- 

 acy it exercised over Syria; and, finally, by the reminiscence 

 of hostilities in High Asia, which prompted the greatest of the 

 nan kings to make repeated inroads as far as Baetiia, 

 though ever with ephemeral results. At length the sceptre 

 passed from them to the Cushites, who, in time, were again 

 subdued by new hordes of High Asia ; while the Cushite nation 

 secured the coast of Abyssinia, Nubia, and Egypt, up to the 

 Port of Aphrodite; this was the Ethiopia of Africa, Thosh, or 

 Etaush, and Kush, still called Kish in the country. Both the 

 Cushite and Aarite people had Caucasian or white chiefs, since, 

 even at this day, Dongola women are prized, because they are 

 comparatively fair. Leaders, like the expelled Pandoos, led 

 them, by coasting, till they crossed over from the Arabian side 

 to the Egyptian. Coming from the Indus, the Aurites ascended 

 still higher, to the head of the Red Sea, as we are expressly 

 told by Syncellus. They passed by the Wadi Sendeli, still 

 named Derb-Tuarikh, and thence spread from Memphis to 

 Thebes; for, had th<ybeen mere wanderers through deserts, 

 their gods, in after ages, would not have been invariably placed 

 in boats, nor would there have been, annually, a festival, when 

 these idols were sent from below to visit others up the river, in 

 splendid barges.*' The origin of such a ceremony could only 



* Diluvian records abound with all the Caucasian and cognate races. 

 There are, probably, more than one hundred fabulous legends, religious 

 and mythical, where the patriarch and his family arc designated under 

 different names, circumstances, and localities. Even in Palestine, 



