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ablenefs of whofe charges, demand this 
{malt tribute of regard. 
The next day, we continued retracing 
our fteps through Corwen, Llangollen, 
and Chirk ; at which laft place, we paffed 
the Welfh border, highly -gratified with 
our excurfion, and anticipating the time 
when we might again vilit thofe {cenes, 
which had. prefented us with fo many 
new and pleafing ideas, and furnifhed us 
fo largely with fubjeéts of future delight- 
ful remembrance. A.A. 
een ee: 
For the Monthly Magazine. 
An ATTEMPT TOWARDS RECONCIL- 
ING THE AssyRIAN CHRONOLOGY 
OF CTESIAS WITH THAT OF HE- 
RODOTUS. 
[Concluded from cur laft.] 
F Cannot omit here, 
_refolving, or melting down years of a 
certain form into days, and then reduc- 
ing thofe ephemeran years into years of a 
different form, receiveth a ftrong con- 
firmation from the fundamental rule of 
the ancient Greek chronology. By that 
rule, three. generations made one buadred 
years. TVhen one generation was equal 
to 334,0f ayear, Who doth not fee that 
thefe 33} muft haye, before the reduc- 
tion, made one round number, three of 
which,made up one year, according to 
the method ufed when the rule was efla- 
blifhed? For who could ever think of 
making a guefs computation (as thofe of 
the Greek chronology manifeftly were) 
by fraétions! Now one hundred guadri- 
menfes years exaétly made one third of a 
common Greek century. 
If the years mentioned in the eld 
A(fyrian fongs be fuppofed to be years of 
120 days, Ctefas’s 1360 come down to 
453 years and four months of the ancient 
year of 360 days; or if you reduce them 
into the Badylonian years of the aftrono- 
mical canon, to 446 years, 290 days; or into 
Julian or fecret Egyptian years, 446 years, 
1793 days. Herodotus’s 520 common E Qip- 
tian or Babylonian years, deduéted trom 
the era of Degces 4015, gives us 3495, 
about the time of Elon the Zebulonite, for 
tne zra of the Afyriar empire. And 
Cicfias’s 446 or 447 reduced years, de- 
ducted from the fame zra of Dejxes, 
place it in the year 3560 or 3568, when 
ely governed Sfrael. Thus Crefas, in- 
stead of exceeding Herodotus, fhall be 
found to fall fhort of that hiftorian’s num- 
ber, by 73 years and fome fraétion. But 
that diiference may be accounted for, all 
to a trifle, by obferving that the two 
ancient writers fet out from different 
Chronelogy of Ctefias and Herodotus. 
[ April 
points. Diodorus tells us, that Crefas 
makes Ninus, the firft King of Affria, em- 
ploy 17 years, in making conqueft before 
he built Nzeveb. By that account, thefe 
17 years make no part of the duration of 
his empire; (as the years preceding ‘the 
battle of Adium make no part of the reign 
of Auguftus); if to thefe 17, reduced to 
little more than five, we join the 55 given 
by other authors to Belv:, before Mus, 
we have fixty years; and the remainder 
may perhaps find its place in Crefas's 
.oofe expreifion, more than, te Rew cup 
KrAwWv wet Toronocwwy, ele de eFaxovla. 
Should one objet to my taking the 
55 of Belus for complete years; the an- 
{wer is obvious. Belus was unknown to 
Ctefas: but Herodatus, in the pedigree 
of the kings of Lydia, mentions a Nimus 
that the method of joa of Belus; and, fince Fulius Africanus, 
who had perufed fo many books which 
are now loft, fets Beles jut before Minus 
_at the head of the Affrian monarchs, 
there can be no doubt but that fuch a 
prince exifted prior to Nixus; if fo, it is 
probable the Egyptian chronologers, hav- 
ing that prince in their catalogue, (feen 
by Herodotus) gave him the fame number. 
of years which G. Syncellus found in 
Africanus; whether thefe were the ori- 
ginal numbers, or the refulr of a reduc- 
tion. As for the 17 years elapfed before 
Ninus magniiudinem queefite dominationis 
continua poffeffione frmavit, the Egyptians 
may have confidered them as years equal 
to their own, aud the greatnefs of the 
deeds faid to have been performed in that 
interval, may give fome countenance to 
that opinion: but fuppofe them to be 
reduced to five years and 315 davs, a 
difference is left of about nine years, 
which in fuch numbers, and fo remote 
an antiquity, cannot make a very mate- 
rial dificulty, Such as it is, however, 
it may perhaps be removed by another 
conjecture, and not a very improbable 
one: Herodotus, who never mentions by 
what prince he begins his Affyrian chro- 
nology, may have added to the years of 
Belus thofe of Alcaeus his father. Agywe 
Key yao 0 vos Ty Gnade Te Adyare. 
‘Lhey who have often met, in modern 
books, with the eatalogye of Fulius Afri- 
canus, amounting to 41 kings and 1459 
years, and feenthat hit ftyled Crefis’s 
caialogue ; they who-have obferved that 
this ancient author is abufed and reviled 
on that account, as a forger of names and 
dates, may perhaps wonder at my fpeak- 
ing of no more than 1360 years. But 
fuch is, in faét, the number given by 
D;odarus, who profeffeth to follow Cigfas Fi 
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