﻿THE 
  EGYPTIAN 
  MONARCHY. 
  85 
  

  

  founded 
  long 
  before 
  the 
  time 
  of 
  Abraham. 
  

   But 
  how 
  long, 
  is 
  a 
  question 
  on 
  which 
  there 
  

   is 
  the 
  widest 
  discrepancy 
  of 
  opinion. 
  The 
  

   most 
  moderate 
  computation, 
  however, 
  carries 
  

   the 
  foundation 
  of 
  that 
  Monarchy 
  as 
  far 
  back 
  

   as 
  700 
  years 
  before 
  the 
  visit 
  of 
  the 
  Hebrew 
  

   Patriarch. 
  Some 
  of 
  the 
  best 
  German 
  

   scholars 
  hold 
  that 
  there 
  is 
  evidence 
  of 
  a 
  

   much 
  longer 
  chronology. 
  But 
  seven 
  centuries 
  

   before 
  Abraham 
  is 
  the 
  estimate 
  of 
  Mr. 
  R. 
  

   Stuart 
  Poole, 
  of 
  the 
  British 
  Museum, 
  who 
  is 
  

   one 
  of 
  the 
  very 
  highest 
  authorities, 
  and 
  

   certainly 
  the 
  most 
  cautious, 
  upon 
  questions 
  

   of 
  Egyptian 
  chronology. 
  This 
  places 
  the 
  

   beginning 
  of 
  the 
  Pharaohs 
  in 
  the 
  twenty- 
  

   eighth 
  century 
  B.C. 
  But 
  according 
  to 
  Ussher's 
  

   interpretation 
  of 
  the 
  Hebrew 
  Pentateuch, 
  the 
  

  

  