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thenes, Manetho, &c., with the supposed hieroglyphical 

 series, he makes Saophis, the fifteenth in Eratosthenes' Ca- 

 talogue, the same as a king whose name is read Phrathek 

 Osirtesen ; but the forty-third year of the latter is mentioned 

 on the monuments, whereas Saophis has only twenty-nine 

 years in the Catalogue. To escape from this difficulty, 

 therefore, Mr. Cullimore adds the unappropriated interval to 

 the reign of Saophis, thus giving him fifty-five years instead 

 of twenty-nine. But it now appears that such a supposition 

 is altogether inadmissible, and consequently the two per- 

 sonages in question cannot be identified; a circumstance 

 which proves that there is some fault in Mr. CuUimore's 

 assumptions, and that his other conclusions, at least in this 

 part of his table, cannot be relied on. 



The corrections here given do not interfere with the in- 

 ferences drawn by Professor Mac Cullagh from the Cata- 

 logue of Eratosthenes in a former paper on Egyptian Chrono- 

 logy (Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy, vol. i. p. 66), 

 because the portion of the Catalogue with which he was there 

 concerned terminates with the reign of Queen Nitocris, the 

 twenty-second in the list. The corrections, indeed, though 

 not hitherto published, were made long before the date 

 (April, 1837) of that paper, but not before he had adopted 

 the hypothesis therein proposed, as an answer to the old 

 and ever-recurring question — Who were the Egyptian sove- 

 reigns that were contemporary with Moses? For it was in 

 consequence of this hypothesis, which had suggested itself 

 to him at a very early period, that he was led to examine the 

 Catalogue minutely, in order to discover whether his chro- 

 nology was affected by its errors. 



Having been led to refer to his hypothesis, Mr. Mac Cul- 

 lagh took occasion to observe that, in the interval which had 

 elapsed since it was published, he had not met with any 

 facts that were opposed to it : on the contrary, the more 

 he considered it, the more he was inclined to believe in its 



