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Universal History,

FROM THE

Earliest AccOUNT of TIME.

Compiled from

ORIGINAL AUTHORS;

AND

Illuftrated with MAPS, CUTS, NOTES, &c.

WITH

A GENERAL INDEX to the Whole.

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ἀκόπως, ἅπερ ἕτεροι συνῆξαν ἐγκόπως.

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THE

Universal History

FROM THE

Earliest Account of Time.

VOL. II.

BOOK I.

The ASIATIC Hiftory to the Time of ALEXANDER the Great.

CHA P. III. SECT. III. Of the Egyptian chronology to the time of Alexander the Great.

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'E clofed the foregoing volume with the best account we could gather from the most credible hiftorians, of the antiquity, government, laws, religion, cuftoms, arts, learning, and trade, of the antient Egyptians. Our vouchers, for what we have advanced on these several subjects, were Herodotus, Diodorus Siculus, and Strabo, who all travelled into Egypt. with no other View but to inquire into the origin, traditions, and records of that nation; and to acquaint themselves with the cuftoms and manners of the inhabitants. We shall now proceed to the hiftory of the princes who reigned in Egypt from the moft early times to the final reduction of the country by Alexander, when the fevere prediction of the prophet was fulfilled, There.

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fall be no more a prince of the land of Egypt. 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 beft, 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 falfe traditions. All we can do therefore is, to acquaint the reader with the sentiments of the antients on this fubject, and the various hypothefes, and chronological fyftems, which the moderns have built upon what they found in the antiBut, for the better understanding of what fhall be faid, it will be neceffary to exhibit the series of the kings of Egypt, according to the several authors who have recorded their fucceffions.

I. A TABLE of the last fixteen of the thirty dynafties, according to the old Egyptian chronicle, the fourteen first dynasties being wanting.

See vol. i. p. 196.

. Ezek. xxx. 13. SYNCELE Chron. p. 51, 52. EUSEB.chron. Grac. SYNCELL. p. 45, &c.