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circumstance of history, from a particular era, to an epoch infinitely 

 more ancient, than any which previous research had as yet accorded to 

 enquirers. For instance, to put the case on Bunsen's chronology ; if 

 the grave-buried palace above noted, had been destroyed or removed 

 by Sesortosis II. (the great Sesostris of the 12th Egyptian dynasty, v. 

 Bunsen in loc), he, whom tradition asserts, I may add, the Assyrians 

 to have deified,* a king whose exact entity research has identified, and 

 whose exploits, history (v. Diodorus, &c. &c.) has ever celebrated, 

 though confusedly with two others of the name who preceded and 

 followed him if — if he, I say, may be supposed to be the conqueror who 

 settled an Egyptianised race in the seats of the Old Assyrians, this 

 was about 2801 years before Christ, (v. Bunsen) : about two hundred 

 and fifty years after (B. C. 2560) commenced the era of a foreign 

 domination in Egypt, that of the Hyksos, who seem to have been a 



* ■ Kai "Secrcaarpis eKeivoS rep KOff/xoKpaTeop XiytaBcu 6ebs to?? affarvptois* 



Fourth Chiliad of the histories of Johannes Pzetzes (556-7) : I do not remem- 

 ber seeing this belief, mentioned out of the rich mine of tradition, which the above 

 Byzantine has left us ; — nor have seen this passage before quoted from him. — H. T. 



f I append at length another ancient allusion to the historical mystery of Sesos- 

 tris, now cleared up in our own day from a fragment of Paulinus' metrical version 

 of the lost book De Reyibus by Suetonius (Oudendorp's Ed. Bak. 1751, 2 vol. 

 8vo.), preserved by Ausonius Epist. XIX. 



Europamque Asiamque duo vel maxima terrse 

 Membra, quibus Libyam dubie Sallustius addit, 

 Europas adjunctam ; possit quum tertia dici. 

 Regnatus multis, quos fama obliterata ; et quos 

 Barbara Romanae non tradunt nomina linguae. 

 Illibanum, Numidamque Avelim, Parthumque Vonouem, 

 Et Caranum, Pellsea dedit qui nomina regum, 

 Quique magos docuit mysteria vana Nechepsi, 

 Et qui regnavit sine nomine mox Sesostris. 



It is curious to trace in this notice of the nameless Sesostris, (which word was 

 doubtless taken, like Pharaoh, for a title) the confusion arising from the recurrence 

 of a Sesortosi3 in several dynasties of Egyptian kings, and the result as expressed 

 in obscure and remote tradition, at one time raising him to be a god, at another a 

 mysterious monarch without a name ! Incidents in study, like these, deserve 

 record for the encouragement they hold out to research, which will in due time 

 teach us.— H. T. 



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