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    object &t& fix the era of that pafri&reh , whc ^ e birth M take ! r tf the startififr point fof farther cb ^ pa&tkttte . Irt the diflJctflty befweSft tbc ^ H&fctf ^ fefc rtfaritaf * and Greek teats , he , after considerable disctossiott aridftesitatidff , adopts the last * which he calculates act the ye ^ tr of the world 31 $ 4 , Irt tte remainder of his task he discusses the variances which occur from different stotemem hi different parts of the- ScViptoresy # itfc atiBfi / fcncf judgment *

    The early part of the chapter on Egyptian Chronology , is founded oil Manetho , and obviates sorite of the difficulties from the apparent length of its periods , by telling m , from Manetho , that the Egyptian year means nd more than a lima ? revolution * . As to the thirty-one dynasties of Manefhd between Mctetefs and Darius , which have puzzled so riiafty ehronologers td compress withift &ny Ih » it 3 assorted to therti , Eusebtfus relieves us byths remark , tfiste # i 6 y are tio § to be reckoned in one continued line . At different times Egyp * was divMed into difJerenf principalities ' . Then comes tha

    quastid vexata as € o the shepherd kings . Joseph us in ] $ fanetho ' s history of them reads that of the Jews , Bryant ( to whom the discovery of the subject of these rema ! rk& would probably have furnished materials for many a speculation ) finds the shepherds in his favourite Cuthites , and makes the Jews their successors in the land of Goshen . Eusebius quotes Josephus , but ^ adopts a diierent conclusion . He leads Jacob and his family into Egypt under one of the shepherd kings . At the expulsion of the latter , they are reduced to slavery by a king who " knew not Joseph , " and are at last

    delivered ufider Acheneheres , the third from Imosis . The ngxt chapter takes the history of Greece , which he arranges as well as he can fronv the authority of their historians , admonishing his readers that little credit is due to any event which happened before the first Olympiad . He has here preserved an ancient list of 249 Olympiads , which has been known * before by a quotation of it front the text of Eusebius by an unknown author . It may be corrected , however , from the present work . The ancient Latin history fa- taken from Diodorus Siculua and Dionysius of Hallioarnassus .

    The compilation of hts tables forms the second part of his work , and hating fixed his slatting points he arranges his series in collateral columns * The first contains his Abrahamic era , then in due time his second containing the Otytofrpteds , then a third from the foundation of Romg , and thence , with other < 2 © li ! ttft n 5 appropriated to the history of each state as it arises , with his- * toric ndfices of memorable events on each side . 1

    Ther editor has concluded his work by an endeavour ( which the assistance of the Armenian verskm made more easy and successful than that of Scaliger } to restore th £ Gteek text , from various sources in which fragments of it are ? scattered * including the other works of the Bishop , Who seems to have oftencopied hifriselfc * too .

    * Since we received the above communication , the work in question has reached dtf , and W £ hope to be able to recur to the subject .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1827, page 326, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1796/page/14/