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i „„„ „„,i ,,, mw Thev are, nevertheless, of 
singly, are very loose , ® Grouped together into cumula- 
great interest and val , 8 q P d by a more painstaking 
tive evidence ; and, were they pursaea Dy y and 
gjSrtE ra“f4£JV4‘..uid b. - 
satisfactory. 
Let ns turn now to 
II. The Hamitic Nations. 
19 Of which group, as the ancient Egyptian is the most 
important^ propose "chiefly to confine my remarks to it. 
(1.) Ancient Egypt, 
jfiSSa SifiS »=£ 
Egypt to arrive fron .the north ^ ^enpweee ^ ^ ^ 
and we should be obliged CQnld gll0W that the oldest 
some iust cause for tnump , u But the very 
existing “™ 6 ^ S e 1 c a J se ' Xim part of Egypt, with 
of Memphis .represents! .he 
and Z earliest kings , chiefly r P.^ 
the remaining period ol the oia emp , splendid 
country southward fcp ays evi e sraelitea; and Nubia, 
dynasties coeval with Moses ana E t) s0 &r a s 
the latest dynasties of a • mai L bears the strongest 
testinwny^o the °truth of the Pentateuch in relation to the 
^"l^Ifight, to^^sEirown by the Egyptian^mc«nMaOTte^)<» 
certain important names whm t p e land of Egypt, 
Genesis. Thus Khem, or Gftemi, sigmiy g ter godgj 
is obviously the same ® E™ > ^ one of t he sons of Cush 
“ay Mtura ly be tdentical w ^ g is painted as 
(Gen. x. 7) ; Ktieta, i i P®^ ts 0 f Karnak, were doubt- 
tnumphmg, on one of t the Gaphtorm, 
less the sons of Heth wh ich Thothmes III. 
named also at Karnak amo > g w bom Moses descn bed 
subdued, were undoubted y P P , •• 23 Among other 
by lb.! name in fl«. x. « I ..£ the tithf.hicl 
“Swed«p«“£ chief priest of the Egyptian temple., 
