418 j On Egypt a]n d the Nile 



SECTION THE THIRD. 



WE come now to the demigods, heroes, and fages, who at different times 

 vifited Egypt and Ethiopia, forrie as vindictive conquerors, and fome as- in- 

 ftruclor's in religion and morality. 

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I. Pe't'hi'na's, or Pi't'he'na's was a Rlfii, or holy man, who had 

 long refided near mount Himalaya, but at length retired to the places of pil- 

 grimage on the banks of the Call, defigning to end his days there in the dis- 

 charge of his religious duties : his virtues were fo transcendent, that the inha- 

 bitants of the countries bordering on that reiver, infilled on his becoming their 

 fovereign, and his defcendants reigned over them to the thirteenth generation 5 

 but his immediate fuccerTor was only his adopted fon. The following feries- 

 $fi fifteen kings may confHtute, perhaps, the dynafty, which, in the hiftory 

 ©f Egypt* is called the Cynick Circle : 



PeVhi* na's. 

 PaiVhfaafi, Critriminas, 



Ijhttnds, 10. Carmanyenas* 

 Tajhtinds, Pit'hini, 



5 Cajhtenas^ Pafhini, 



Jujhtbias, Pattyawsuca» 



Pufitenas, Pefhi-Suca* 



Sujhtenas, 15 Me^d'hi-Suca. 



Each of thofe princes is believed to have built a place of wormip, near 

 which he ufually refided j but of the fifteen temples, or confecrated edifices, 

 we can ©hly afcertain the fituation of /even with any degree of accuracy. 



