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"by the name of ' Thtihi,'' ' Thulien,'' or ' Thuheni,^ i.e., ' the light or 

 Jair people.'' " 



Page 255. — " The abundant tribute and taxes which under 

 Thuti-mes III. were yearly contributed by the conquered nations, and 

 his own subjects, seem from the reign of Seti to have flowed in less 

 vigorously, whilst the wants of the kings were the same, and the 

 erection of costly buildings required a certain expenditure. ITew 

 sources must needs therefore be opened for the required means. So 

 the king began to devote special care to the regular working of the 

 gold mines in Egypt and Nubia, and to the formation of wells in the 

 midst of the parched mountain regions, from which the gold was to 

 be won. Therefore, everything was done to carry on the gold 

 washings with success. The people who followed this laborious 

 occupation were placed under the superintendence of a ' her-pit ' or 

 ' overseer of the foreign people.'' " 



Page 258. — Chap, xii., xix.. Dynasty, Eamses II., circ. b.c. 1333. 

 This is the king who above all others bears the name of A-nektu, or 

 " the Co7iqueror,''^ and whom the monuments and papyri often designate 

 by his popular names of Ses, Sestesu, Setesu, or Sestura, that is the 

 Sesthosis, who is called Eamesses by Manetho ; the Sesostris of the 

 Greeks. 



Page 262. — An inscription of his says, "I dedicate to thee, ships 

 with their freight on the great sea, which should bring to thee (the 

 wonderful productions) of the holy land." " The merchants carry on 

 their commerce with their wares, and their productions of gold, and 

 silver, and bronze." 



Page 264. — In the 5th year of the king's reign a great war broke 

 out between Egypt and ^'peoples from the extreme end of the sea to the 

 land of the Keta " {circ. b.c. 1328). 



Page 287. — In order to increase his revenues, Ramses turned his 

 attention to the gold districts, and especially to the JSTubian mines of 

 Akita, the modern Wady-OUaqui. 



Page 292. — So early as the Xlth Dynasty, we find traces of borings 

 for water in the waste valleys of Hammamat, 1200 years before the 

 accession of Eamses II. Sank-ka-Ea, one of his ancestors, had made 

 four wells on the old road from Coptos to Kossir, the remains of which 

 are still to be seen. 



Page 307. — Eamses reigned 67 years, p. 309 ; his fourteenth son, 

 named Meneptah, was his successor. 



Page 311. — Meneptah II. commences his reign {circ. B.C. 1266). 



Page 313. — The inscription of this king as to the advance of the 



