Thus giving a series which would coincide with the 430 years period. 
Again, after the expulsion of the Hyksos we have, according to Manetho, 
the whole of the eighteenth Dynasty, which comprehends at least sixteen 
monarchs, to place in that interval ; which, if it is so very much abbreviated, 
as is commonly done, does not appear to allow space for the Israelites amount- 
ing to such a multitude. I believe that the period has been too much 
abridged, and that the longer period is none too long to allow for the 
increase.* 
Mr. J. Allen.- I should like to ask a question. Mr. Savile lias spoken 
of some ages, and he has assigned thirty-eight years as the probable length 
of a generation. Is there any special reason for assigning such a length 
of time ; further than that, when it is multiplied by the number of genera- 
tions, you obtain the period required ? 
Mr. W. M. Walters. — The author of the paper has stated that, according 
to some Chinese historians, a conjunction of planets took place in the year 
2440 B.C., which was the year of the Deluge. Now, if we go to Chinese 
history for a point of this kind, how far does it go to show that the Deluge 
was not universal 1 If we admit history to show that a conjunction took place 
then, it seems evidence to prove that the Deluge was not universal, and 
t herefore, in seeming to support the chronology of the Bible in one point, 
we appear not to do so in regard to the universality of the Deluge. Then 
as to Pharaoh Cecrops going into Greece, is not that against the Biblical 
narrative, which speaks of Pharaoh as being overwhelmed in the Red Sea ? 
Mr. S. M. Drach. — I believe, with regard to the Creation, that its 
duration originated from that verse in the Psalms which says, a thousand 
years are as a day ; and in the same manner, having set forth six days for 
the Creation, it was easy to say that it took 6,000 years. As to the duration 
of the captivity of the Israelites in Egypt, it is stated with great emphasis 
in Exodus, as having lasted 430 years, because, on the self-same day, “at 
the end of the 430 years, the hosts of the Lord went out from the land of 
Egypt.” The date of the building of Solomon’s Temple has been the subject 
cf a great deal of discussion, Mr. Bosanquet believing that a period of 
490 years exactly intervenes : thus the idea being that there was a special 
interval between the salient points of Biblical history, — between the Exodus 
and tire building of Solomon’s Temple, and between the building and the 
destruction of that temple. 
A Member. — There is another matter to which I should like to draw 
attention for a moment. I have often been struck, when looking at the 
Egyptian monuments in the British Museum, with the thick lips and peculiar 
cast of countenance given by them to the Egyptians, — characteristics which it 
seems difficult to reconcile with the fact, that the date at which these monu- 
ments came into existence has to be carried back for many centuries before 
Christ. If we take the account in the Bible to be correct, and believe that all 
* This subject has been taken up before. See Vol. V. p. 349, ct seq. 
