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Rh attempted to reduce into order? My reply must be, that I believe myself to have fallen by change upon the clue by which the enigma is to be solved. In repeatedly examining the fragments of these Chronicles, I thought I perceived some phænomena that seemed to explain the principle on which they were originally constructed, and promised to connect the whole into one system. The more I investigated the matter, the more I became convinced that I was not deceived by fallacious appearances, or by merely accidental coincidences. Of this, however, my readers will now judge. I shall only premise that, if I am correct in my conjectures, there is in reality no want of harmony between the historical records of the ancient Egyptians and those contained in the Sacred Scriptures; that, on the contrary, the antiquity assumed for the Egyptian nation, from their own archives, is far within the era assigned by the chronology of the LXX. for the second origin of mankind.

The treatise on Egyptian Chronology was written, for the most part, some years ago; and I avail myself of the present opportunity of presenting it to the Public.