306 
to be the 722d year of the city; ‘ con- 
trafted with Egyptian time, will fall into 
the 725th; now, as Augulius was in his 
thirty-firtt year, when he fixed the 14 of 
Thoth, in the 725th year of Rome, and 
in intended Cantabrigiana announced. 
[Nov. I, 
made this his fr/7 year in Egypt, the two 
years from Antony’s preceding, were con- 
fidered as {upprefled. This the annexed 
table will thew 7 
j 
(Bra of Augul- 
Year of Rome 
trom the azti 
of April. fixed new moontirom Coins. 
] of Thoth. 
722 | A 
723 | 
724 } 
%& 
725 2 B 
| 
726 3 Ly 
us at: Alexan-|Dates of the 
ria, from the|Roman Empire|joth. 
| i or en eeatvearee agth of 
Auguit, and, in biflextile years, to the 
| The afterifks mark the biffextile. 
209 eocetee 
The date commencing from Antony 
and new Reme. 
Pape 
Battle of AGium on the sth of 
h 
Alexandria taken in the month 
Mefori. vo Oa 
eerie 
The death of Cleopatra, and begin-f 
ning of the Ceefars, afterward ftylcd o! 
\Auguitus, in Egypt. 
‘The years of Auguftus began to be 
itricken at Alexandria on coins. 
The beginning of the zra of the Au- 
gufti at Rome, from the kal. of January, 
A.U. 727. 
Thus, then, asAuguitus is fated to have 
been born in the year of Rome 691, when 
the Roman year is referred to Egyptian 
reckoning, it will appear, that, in Roman 
competition, his thirty-firit year fell in 
this year of reform. In perfeét confif- 
tence with this, and all that has been ad- 
duced, is an infcription on the fouthern 
portal of the very temple in which this 
zodiac exifts, and which, though hitherto 
urapplied, is given by Denon. Ie is 
rendered by Mr. Aikin thus: 
<¢ On account of the Emperor Cefar, 
God, the fon of Jupiter, the Deliverer, 
when Publius OGavius being Governor, 
Marcus Claudius Poftumus Commander 
in Chief, and Tryphon, General, the depu- 
ties of the mef€ppolis confecrated, in vir- 
tue of the law, the Propylzum to Ifis, the 
greateft of the Goddeffes, and to the affo- 
ciated Gods of the temple, in the 31ft year 
of Cefar.”” Here the infcription breaks 
off, but, in the Greek, the two words 
©®LYO TEBAXTH! follow. For thefe the 
Frenchtranflator unaccountably fubfitutes 
—Le College des Preires a U benperatrice, 
whereas it fimply fignifies ow the facred 
Thoth. 
Et will fuffice to add, that the nineteen 
boats under the zodiac exhibit the nineteen 
years of the Metonic cycle—And to afk: 
— Where now are the 15,000 yeats before 
Chrift, of the learned FourRRIER? 
Howland-fireet, SAMUEL HENLEY. 
Fitzroy fquaré. — 
= 
To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, 
T was lately examining a library of very 
valuable books, and admiring the 
great number of catalogues, contained in 
it, both of printed books and manufcripts. 
A perfon, alfo, ftanding near me, noticed 
the catalogues, but confidered them merely 
as fo much waite-paper, or, at beft, as ex- 
travagant ornaments,—for they were in 
magnificent bindings,—to adorn a fhelf. 
The authors, too, he reprefented as 
-mere fcholaftic grubs, or accurate and 
minute ABC darians. My feelings, I 
acknowledge, were widely different. A 
catalogue of interefting and uncommon 
books, though it fcarcely afpires toa rank 
in literature, isa moft ufeful guide to in- 
quiry: it is not light, but it opens the 
door to light: and aman engaged in mak- 
ing an extenfive and faithful catalogue, 
though 
