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the Midiamte and the Ethiopian woman were not one and the same, which 
seems to be supported by the juxtaposition of the two countries m Habakkuk 
iii 7 But this does not touch the real point at issue, viz., as to the possibi 1 y 
of Moses being the general of the “Pharaoh’s daughter” who had preserved 
him as an infant, had adopted him as her son, and who subsequently became 
the only queen regnant of the long line of the Pharaohs mentioned in history 
It is certain from Mariettas discovery of the palace walls of *at qdebmted 
queen, with their beautiful pictures of the campaign against the Ethiopia, 
that a war between Egypt and Ethiopia was one of the marked 
her reign. And since Josephus and Irenueus both mention as an histor c 
fact that Moses conducted the campaign against Ethiopia before he fle o 
Midian when he was forty years old, I think we may fairly assume that the 
picture of the general of the Egyptian army may be none other than he who 
subsequently became far more celebrated both as a general and a lawgiver 
during his forty years’ rule of the Israelites in their march to the promised 
la As Mr. Graham alludes to an objection that has been brought against the 
truth of the Mosaic record of Pharaoh having given “camels" to Abraham, 
“ on the ground that at that time the camel was not known m gyp , 
though he very justly points out the weakness of such an argument, I would 
21 to mention that Osbum has detected this animal in an inscription 
on the Temple of Kamac, belonging to the reign of Thothmes III., t 
contemporary of Moses, as it reads, “ Three camels’ loads were brought to the 
king this year ;”* but I have not been able to discover any earlier authority 
for the camel being known to the Egyptians save the statement in the book 
of Genesis, and which is amply sufficient for any candid and ’ 
It only remains for me to notice what was said by Mr. Dunba, Heath, 
not because he specified any objection to my paper, but because he affirmed 
that “ Mr. Titcomb’s chronology was substantially correct ; and he added. 
“a most remarkable coincidence which tends greatly to strengthen the proof 
of this chronology, and which is a distinct point of great merest m itself is 
that Manepthah II., the monarch of the Exodus, was the son of a man ^who 
was the brother of a person whose sarcophagus we have in the B 
Museum, and who was governor of Palestine, which belonged then to Egypt 
In reply to this singular chronological conclusion I would mention that 
M. Lieblein, a great authority with those who disregard aU Biblical chro- 
nology, has fixed the date of Ramesses II. (the father of Manepthah ,11.) at 
1134 B.c. See Zeitschrift, 1869, p. 122. This would bring the date o 
Manepthab’s reign (the British Museum possesses an inscription of the 
66th year of his father’s reign, showing that it was a very long one) down to 
the middle of the 11th century, just when David was ascending e , 
and thus, according to this strange chronological scheme, Moses and Davi 
* The Papyrus Anastase I., of the time of Ramesses II., commonly called 
“ the Great,’’ likewise has mention of the “ Camel. 
