before the name of “ Pharaoh ” was known, to a king of the second Dynasty, 
and is undoubtedly the oldest authentic proof of man on earth which has yet 
been discovered, notwithstanding what sceptics may say to the contrary. 
With reference to the testimony of Barnabas and the 6,000 years, what I 
meant to say was, that from the time of Adam the age of mankind is sup- 
posed to have lasted about that period. With regard to Mr. Bosanquet, I 
have corresponded with him and studied his works very closely. He is a 
valuable writer, and a very learned man. I know his work on the Messiah ; 
but cannot assent to his interpretation of the important question about the 
490 years, and my chronology conflicts with his, especially on those two most 
important dates, viz. the birth and death of Christ. I have looked at his 
arguments from every point of view, and am obliged to own that I think 
the weight of evidence is against him. Nevertheless, his object is the same 
as mine,— a desire to ascertain the truth and accuracy of what is Scripture 
chronology. As to the important point, that it was a comparative after- 
thought of the Jews to overthrow the tremendous weight of testimony as to 
the fulfilment of Daniel’s prophecy respecting the death of our blessed Lord, 
they have skilfully endeavoured to alter the chronology in order to prove the 
falsehood of our Scriptures ; but I believe secular chronology is so clearly 
on our side that the Rabbinical chronology may be left to itself. With 
regard to another question respecting what may be termed the argument 
from “race,” a gentleman has referred to the cast of countenance of 
Thothmes III. We all know that cast of countenance. We have an 
original bust of him in the British Museum, and, as it was carved when 
he was reigning, we may suppose that it is a true and accurate 
representation of that king. But I cannot quite agree with the mem- 
ber who has spoken as to the lesson we may derive from it. Thothmes III. 
had an elder half-sister, and that sister, I believe, was the veritable 
“Pharaoh’s daughter” who preserved Moses, and who was the only 
instance of a queen regnant that we meet with in history during the 
long course of the Egyptian Pharaohs. She erected many magnificent 
buildings, and amongst them a beautiful obelisk, still standing amid the 
ruins of Thebes, on svhich is still to be seen the well-known term of 
“ Pharaoh’s daughter.” She is known to have occupied the throne for nearly 
twenty years previous to the accession of Thothmes III., her younger half- 
brother. There is a fair inference that she offered the throne to her adopted 
child, Moses ; the Scriptures d® not state it, but we infer that he who rejected 
all the treasures of Egypt, “ and refused to be called the son of Pharaoh’s 
daughter,” did refuse the throne which his adopted mother, as Queen 
Regnant, alone had the power to offer. Rossellini, in his great work, has given 
a very accurate representation of this sister of Thothmes III., who is known 
by the name of Queen Hatasu ; but what is her countenance l One in which 
there is the most beautiful intermingling of the Grecian and Roman features 
that I oversaw ! How do you account for that, if her half-brother in blood 
had the countenance of a negro l I have a representation here of Pharaoh 
