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difference, and the time required in each case to turn this fraction of 

 a day into 365 days is certainly 1,506 years. 



Thus the 25 days' recession* that Censorinus remarked had taken 

 not 100, but 103 years to bring about : 



and the date of his account being 239 A.D., 



the last previous Sothic period had ended in 136 ,, 

 and the next previous one 1,506 years earlier = 1369 B.C. 

 Now, since in the ninth year of Amenhotep I., the 1st of Thoth 

 fell 57 days after the heliacal rising of Sothis 

 57 



and — ^ X 1,506 years = 235 years, 



his ninth year is brought to 235 years before 1369 B.C. = 1604 B.C. 



and his first year to 1612 ,, 



and since Aahmes I., his immediate predecessor and founder of the 

 XVIIIth Dynasty, reigned 25 years, he acceded in 1636 B.c.f 



Again, in the seventh year of Sennsert III. the 1st of Thoth fell 

 139 days after the heliacal rising of Sothis, 



and X 1,506 = 574 years, 

 365 ^ 



which brings his seventh year to 574 years before 



1369 B.C. = 1943 B.C. 



and his last, or 38th year, to 1912 „ 



Amenemhat III.'s last, or 44th, year, to 1869 ,, 



Amenemhat IV.'s last, or 9th year, to 1861 ,, 

 Sebeknefern's last, or 4th, year, closing the Xllth Dynasty, 



to 1858 „ 



Seeing, then, that the Xllth Dynasty ended in 1858 „ 



and the XVIIIth began in 1636 „ 



there remained for the Hyksos kings in the north and for their 

 contemporaries, the under-kings of the Xlllth and XVIIth Dynasties 

 in the south, 222 years instead of the 30 years that Petrie leaves to 

 the Hyksos as sole monarchs. 



[In one important matter, Petrie, both by discovery and inference, 

 utterly confutes the rationalists. In the mines and the many- 



* It appears to be 26 days ; but June 25th Julian=June 26th, 

 Gregorian, which is one day nearer to July 21st. 



t In nearly every case the "last year" of one king is the "first year " 

 of his successor. 



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