fhall be no more a prince of the land of Egypt 3. But as chronology, or the referring the reign of each prince, and the events that happened in his reign, to their proper dates, is the light of hiftory, and without it the best, and, in other refpects, moft exact relations, would be only a chaos of facts heaped together, we ought to fettle the Egyptian chronology before we enter upon the hiftory of the Egyptian kings. But here the guides we have hitherto followed, either quite forfake us, or give us fuch information as we can by no means depend on, having been themfelves grofly impofed upon by forged records, and false traditions. All we can do therefore is, to acquaint the reader with the fentiments of the antients on this subject, and the various hypothefes, and chronological fyftems, which the moderns have built upon what they found in the antients. But, for the better understanding of what shall be, said, it will be neceffary to exhibit the series of the kings of Egypt, according to the feveral authors who have recorded their fucceffions. I. ATABLE of the last fixteen of the thirty dynasties, according to the old Egyptian chronicle, the fourteen first dynasties being wanting. chron. p. 51, 52. EUSEB. chron. Græc. SYNCELL. p. 45, &c. The IV. dynafty of Mem-1 The IV. dynasty of Mem phites, confifting of eight phites, confifting of seven kings. teen kings. Years Years. The VI. dynasty of Mem- The VI. dynasty of Mem phites, confifting of fix phites. princes. Years. Years. 6 Nitocris (H) 94 12 Nitocris 203 The VII. dynasty of Memphites, confifting of seventy kings, who reigned 70 days. 3 203 The VII. dynasty of Memphites, confifting of five kings, who reigned 75 days. According to Africanus. The VIII. dynasty of Memphites, confifting of twentyfeven kings, who reigned 146 years. * The XII. dynasty of Diofpo- | The XII. dynasty of Diofpolites, confifting of feven lites, confifting of feven kings. Years. } 46 1. Gefongafes, or Sefonchoris, reigned 2. Ammanemes kings. 1. Sefynchoris reigned 38 2. Ammenemes (I) Achthoes was a moft in human prince: after several cruelties by him exercised on Years. his fubjects, he fell into madnefs, and was flain by a crocodile (9). |