ON INTRODUCED ANIMALS AND PLANTS. 



161 



head of the Nineteenth Dynasty. Manetho's numbers (as transmitted 

 by Julius Africanus, Syncellus, and Routh), below the Nineteenth 

 Dynasty inclusive, are as follows, 



"XIX. 



Theban . 





209 yrs. 



XX. 



Theban 





185 





XXI. 



Tanite . 





130 





XXII. 



Bubastite 





116 





XXIII. 



Tanite . 





89 





XXIV. 



Saite 





6 





XXV. 



Ethiopian 





40 





XXVI. 



Saite 





150J 





XXVII. 



Persian . 





124! 





XXVIII. 



Saite 





6 





XXIX. 



Mendesian 





20| 





XXX. 



Sebennyte 





38" 



by Modern computation, 



Add, "XXXI. 



Persian" 



(Africa- 





Persians reconquered Egypt (Clinton) 



nus?) 







"9" 



"B.C. . . 350 



Alexander conq. Egypt (i 



vrongly 





(Alexander conq. Eg. "B. C. 332," 



placed by Syncellus in) 



<B. C. 



339" 



the correct date, Clinton and others.) 



End of Great Year (by Ptol. Obs.) 





End of Great Year (by Ptol. Obs.), 



A. D. 128 ( 



-1) = 





127 



1539i 



A. D. 128 (—1) = . 127 

 154H 



On a monument, discovered and figured by Cailliaud, Ramses II. 

 (the son of Meneptha Sethos) is represented receiving the symbols of 

 two Great Years. It appears therefore, that in B. C. 1413, the Egyp- 

 tians believed, that two Great Years had been counted out. This 

 corresponds with the statement of the priests to Herodotus ii. 142 ; 

 and will place the commencement of the Egyptian Chronological 

 Reckoning (1540 x 2 + 1413) in B. C. 4493. Now, 



Manetho's first book contained, 

 Manetho's second book contained, 

 Manetho's third book contained, . 



."2308 yrs. 70 days." 

 . "2121" (=660 + 1461) 

 . "1050." 



Add, XXXI Dyn. Persian, (Africanus ?), " 9 ' 

 Alex. conq. Egypt (wrongly placed by 



Syncellus in) "B.C 339 : 



End G. Y. (Ptol. Obs.) A. D. 128 (—1)= 127 



Deduct, the above-obtained Commence- 

 ment, B. C. 



by another computation, 

 Persians reconq. Eg. (Clin- 

 ton), "B. C. . . . 350" 

 Censorious' End of G. Year, 

 "A. D. 139" (— 1)== 138 

 5967 

 4493 



5954 

 4493 

 1461 yrs. 70 days. 



1474 



A surplus of 1461 years has thus become evident in the Syncello- 



41 



