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corrupt in the latter part, owing to the carelessness with 

 which it was transcribed either by Syncellus himself or his 

 immediate copyists. The writers on Egyptian antiquities 

 have in consequence been much perplexed in settling the 

 chronology of the reigns in which the errors exist, and the 

 attempts that have been made to remove the confusion have 

 only served to increase it. It was the object of the author 

 to restore the document to its original state, and he showed 

 that this might be effected, with complete certainty, by a pro- 

 per attention to the manuscripts of Syncellus. Of these only 

 two are known ; one has been used by Father Goar, the first 

 editor of the Chronographia (Paris, 1652); the other, which 

 is a much better one, has been collated by Dindorf, the se- 

 cond and latest editor. Dindorf's edition was published at 

 Bonn, in the year 1829, as part of the Corpus Scripto- 

 rum Historice Byssantince, and on its first appearance Mr. 

 Mac CuUagh had satisfied himself as to the original readings 

 of the Catalogue, and had seen how to account for the errors 

 which, probably from Syncellus's own negligence, had crept 

 into it ; but he did not publish his conclusions at the time, 

 thinking that similar considerations could not fail to occur to 

 some of the numerous writers who were then giving their 

 especial attention to such subjects. This, however, has not 

 been the case. Chronologers have continued to follow in the 

 footsteps of Goar, a man of little learning, and of no critical 

 sagacity, who corrected the Catalogue most injudiciously, 

 and whose corrections, strange to say, are left without any 

 remark by Dindorf. Thus Mr. Cory, in his Ancient Frag' 

 ments, a work much referred to, merely transcribes Gear's 

 list ; and Mr. CuUimore, in attempting to reconcile ancient 

 authors with each other and with the monuments, has adopted 

 an hypothesis respecting the identity of two sovereigns, which 

 is not tenable when the true version of the Catalogue is 

 known. Even in Goar's edition, however, there was quite 

 enough to have led a person of ordinary judgment to the 



