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. , f T nt .pr>K’ was Atnosis, the head of the 18th 
the ‘king which knew not Jos ph the No rman Conquest”; 
Dynasty , as that our William I. digcussed , X would direct attention 
and if any one wishes to see this subjec y Egyptian History 
to the very able Essays of Canon Cook On the Bmrwgs >J i 
upon the Pentateuch, Speaker’s Commentary, 1. ^ PP- on those 
mention that Canon Cook d.d ^ the honou to ask my ^ hthere 
essays some years before the Commentary was pubhsh d ^ 
are some points on which I was — e walnel confirming 
learned writer, yet I cordially app ^ to tke sm aU body of Egyp- 
tiTn* scholars in tM^country ; an *^^5 
SSK “SCfrtT Saeror of "the shepherds, the head 
° f f 6 to 7 Mr y Titcomb, who objects, as does Mr. Graham, to the proba- 
In reply to Mr. litcomo, i j > , erd kin tkis a l 0 ne would 
bility of Joseph’s patron eing on X -would confine myself, therefore, 
require many pages to answer adequate y. ^ ^ Ro W) a s to the 
to pointing out, partly m rep y o an century and another in 
little value of authorities who lived one n thiri * J ^ ^ ft 
the eighth century of the Christian And if I 
course simply through the pauci y o Bvzantine monk of the eighth 
adduced the testimony of Ge0I ;8® j governed Evypt under Pharaoh 
century, that “all are was the current 
Apophu,” it was merely » s ^ down from generation to generation, 
tradition, which must have there was no reason to 
respecting the true name of Joseph’s patron mad om own 
doubt either its genuineness 5tone> invaluable inscriptions on the 
age, through the discovery of t . . ted and I thereby find the 
monuments of ancient Egypt have heen mterpre , > it * 
strongest confirmation of the of this I would 
support of the truth o the story of the “ ^ ^ of the BewU 
direct attention to the Papers PT . v i mT)or tant evidence on this subject. 
AreMolognne, 1861, who has aduce v y^J? ^ of the Bou i aqu e 
Mariette-Bey was for many ye o{ E , for the express purpose 
Museum, near Cairo, forme y = country, and probably he 
of preserving the priceless monumen to f^Xing authority on such 
would be accepted by Egyptian sc Xiouvre now contains a 
a subject. It may be the ruins of San 
fUi to he a veritable representation of 
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which I have done on the au thori y wa3 founde d by Salatis, the 
De Rouge and Ewald, because ^ b rlws came into Egypt. Bift surely 
first of the Shepherd kings, before t third century 
this implies no more than that Manetho, who wrote 
