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    on wjiiejl be pywywhw ? proce&Js * that the gods pf jtbe Heartens were tfte Jungs , queeflsj end chief ? , pf fhe cpjyptrisj in which they were worshiped , is either probable in itsejf w ? supported by history . The discoveries of M . Champollion haved fixed Ramesep or Sesostris ( the Sethos of Manetho ) at the head pf the nineteenth ( Jypasty , and Sesorjqhis , Sesac or Shishak , at the head of the twenty-second . The name Scheschonk has been found on one of the colonnades of the palace of % . afn&c * and on a statue of the Museum of

    Turin , These monuments pf cpurs § &ffpr < l no data , but according to the lists of MauMho , whom it is reasonable $ o trust after so many confirmations of his account , lie Wg ° bl $ *?} & * ) Q 971 B . C- » which corresponds almost exactly with the c } ose of Solomon ' s and the commencement of Rehoboam ' s reign . The alliance -of this powerful monarch with Jeroboam , who had taken refuge at his court aijd ha < i married his daughter , no doubt contributed Jo the dismemberment pf Judaea and the establishment of the kingdom of

    Jsrae } . In the reign of Abjjam , the successor of Rehoboam , we meet with po mention of the kings of JSgypt , but in that of Asa , his son , we are told , in the 2 d book of Chronicles xiv . 9 , that Zerah , the Ethiopian , came up with an immense host , and was defeated by Asa at Mareshah . The successor of Sesonchis , in Manetho , is Osoroth or Osortbon ; and M . Champollion , having foun d the name Osorchpn engrayed after that of Scheschonk at Karnac , supposes him to be the same as Zerah or Zarach . Mr . Salt , however .

    Jias found ( Essay , p , $ 2 ) the name Qf Zera ( written Ssera ) at the mines near Bjount Sipai ; and wp think that ChamppJJion himself , when acquainted witfy this fact , will be ready to admit that this is the Zerah of the Scriptures . He accounts for the circumstance of his being called an Ethiopian , by supposing his conquests to have included Ethiopia * which was certainly subject to or in alliance with Sesac ( 2 Chxon , xii . 3 ); but this seems not a probable

    explanation . One pf the results most confidently to be expected from the recent discoveries in hieroglyphics , is the elucidation of the political condition of Ethiopia and its relations with Egypt . Their inhabitants appear to have been as much a kindred people as the English and the Scotch . The hieroglyphic writing was common to both , as we learn , not pnly from Diodorus , but from the ( evidence of mpnuments ; it was even more used in common

    life in Ethiopia than m Egypt : the Ethiopians claimed the Egyptians as their , colonists \ and Mr . W * J- Pankea has ascertained , that the present Ian-Suage of Nubia ( t } ie Efar ^ bra ) fe , in great measure , identical with the ancient optip . ( Salt , p . 57 *) From the reigp of Asa a Jone interval occurs , durinsr which np mention is in

    made pf Ethiopia ^ m Egyptian njonarche Jewish history . The princes of the twentyrthird a . n 4 ttyenty-fourth dynasties appear to have been men not tlistingviished by activity or talent , who confined themselves within the limits of their own , 4 p * ninipns ; an , cj the growipg power of the Assyrians may have preyepted any attempt ? at Asiatic conquest . A sense of mutual danger from fcis monarchy oqcasjonally united Egypt and Judaea in alliance . It is un *

    i ^ xed in their original position at eopie given event ; Newton naye , the Argonautic cxpeditlott . Noiy , the first is in itself probable , the second is a well-ascertained fact , \> ut tj * e proof of the third fails altogether . It is said by Diog . Laert ., Pref . Hi ., that Muaaeua voiyjvai btayovictv icai a < p < x 7 pav wpctroy , I . e . according to Newton , " first constructed the sphere , " ( Chron . p . 84 , ) and consequently fixed the colures . But U has been shewn by Larcher , Her . Vol . 11 . p . 287 , and Wesseling on Her ., i ® . u . § 53 , that the word * mean , that Mubrjus first wrote a poetical description of the spterc .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1827, page 318, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1796/page/6/