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Finally, the Vetus Chronicon, Herodotus, and even Manetho 
report, that Menes, the first king, had settled in Egypt, at 
the beginning of the first canicular period in 2781 B.C. 
Again, as the tables of Abydos and Karnak, the Yetus 
Chronicon and Eratosthenes, reckon from Menes to Ramses, 
born in 1693 b.c, only 1100 years; and as the planetary 
configuration, observed when Menes arrived in Egypt, and 
preserved on sixteen monuments, refers to 2780 B.C., the 
conclusion is, that Manetho's dynasties, not mentioned in the 
tables of Abydos and Karnak, and in Eratosthenes* " Later- 
culum," were contemporaneous, as the "Yetus Chronicon" 
says expressly. Consequently, the Egyptian history has not 
begun before " the day of Peleg," 2781 b.c, 666 years after 
the flood, as Manetho and the " Yetus Chronicon" specify. 
This chronology harmonises as to the year with the state- 
ments in the Septuagint, and with the planetary configura- 
tion, expressed in the JNoachian alphabet, according to which 
the deluge ended on the 7 th day of September (Julian style) 
in 3446 b.c, 666 years prior to the dispersion of the nations 
in Peleg' s day. In such ways it has been confirmed, what 
the New -Testament, Josephus, all Fathers of the Church, 
Arabian authors, the actual Hebrew manuscripts in the hands 
of the Jews in Abyssinia, the old Samaritan Pentateuch, and 
our best chronologists for two hundred years past have 
demonstrated, that the rabbis, particularly the apostate 
Akiba, 120 a.c, fifty years subsequent to the destruction of 
Jerusalem, have shortened the original chronology of the 
present Hebrew text of the Pentateuch, in order to demon- 
strate that Christ had been a false Messiah, being born not 
6000, as the Prophets predicted, but 4000 years after the 
creation. This subject has been discussed in extenso, in 
my " Chronologia Sacra ;" Leips., 1846 ; and in my " Sum- 
mary of Recent Discoveries New York, 1857. 
