ON INTRODUCED ANIMALS AND PLANTS. 13 



ments of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Dynasties, appears to be a 

 plant, not unlike the Iris : and analogy may also be remarked in the 

 color of the Iris flower. The Iris sisyrincliium, according to Forskal 

 and Delile, is indigenous in Lower Egypt. 



On the monuments of the Fourth and Fifth Dynasties, Lepsius 

 found the cubit to be "524 millimetres" in length; and the standard 

 weights and measures, to be the same with those used in later times by 

 the Babylonians and Persians. 



The name of King Useskef, of the Fifth Dynasty, has been found 

 in tombs at Gizeh (Lepsius II. PL 40) ; and also in the beautiful tomb 

 at Sakhara, which appears to have been constructed during his reign. 



A portrait of King Sahura, of the Fifth Dynasty, has been found at 

 Wadi Maghara, in a tablet recording the military conquest of a nation 

 belonging to the White Race (Forty Days in the Desert, PI. 12) ; his 

 name occurs also on the stones of the North Pyramid at Abusir, which 

 is thus ascertained to be his tomb (see Lepsius II. PI. 39). 



The name of King Nefrukera, of the Fifth Dynasty, has been found 

 at Sakhara and Gizeh, in tombs apparently constructed during his 

 reign. 



Crops of barley (Hordeum), distinguished by the inferior height and 

 the thicker and beardless spikes, are figured in one of these tombs 

 (Lepsius II. PI. 47. Compare also Champollion, PL 417). — Barley is 

 again figured on monuments of the Sixth and Seventeenth Dynasties ; 

 and is mentioned under its current Egyptian name in the Hebrew 

 Scriptures; and under its current Greek name, by Homer. 



The porcupine (Hystrix) is figured in the same tomb (Lepsius II. 

 PL 4G). The living specimen may have been imported into Egypt 

 from the East. 



The name of King Ransesr, of the Fifth Dynasty, has been found 

 on the stones of the Middle Pyramid at Abusir ; which is thus ascer- 

 tained to be his tomb. His name occurs also at Wadi Maghara, and 

 in small tombs at Gizeh, apparently constructed during his reign (Lep- 

 sius II. PL 55, 59, and 152). 



The name of King Tetkera, of the Fifth Dynasty, has been found 

 at Sakhara, in a tomb apparently constructed during his reign (Lep- 

 sius II. PL 63). 



The name of King Assa, of the Fifth Dynasty, has been found at 

 Gizeh, in tombs apparently constructed during his reign (Lepsius II. 

 PL 67 and 74). A papyrus written by one of his officers (and dis- 



