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178 178 Memnon^ with the relation in which, according to Herodotus, the Per- sian conqueror stood to Egypt ^% and even with the main fact related by Xenophon himself, in either case, if the fact of the Egyptian settlements be admitted, they seem to afford an easy explanation of the monuments seen by Herodotus in Ionia» If on any of their marches the Egyptian troops found themselves at leisure in a station near a rock, which struck them by its remarkable appearance, the thought of carving on it the image of one of their ancient heroes, who had per- haps passed by that very road, and had unquestionably con- quered the country, would not be very unlikely to occur to them. It is to be regretted that Mr Jacobs has not thought it necessary, in discussing the legend of Memnon, to state more explicitly his opinion on this disputed question. He assumes the existence of the Colchian colony, but he seems to consider it as a commercial, not a military one, and leaves us in doubt whether he acknowledg-es Sesostris as a historical person, or regards him as no less fabulous than the equally celebrated Osymandyas, whose wars he treats with as little respect as his library. But the argument on which he ap- pears to ground his belief in this Colchian colony, whatever was its origin, is too remarkable to be passed over in silence. " Serapis was carried by Egyptians to Colchis, whence he migrated to Sinope, and thence back to his original country.'' This manner of alluding to the wellknown affair of Serapis strongly excited my curiosity as to the reasons which had led the author to such a conclusion. But the reference which accompanies it is merely this: Fontenic Memoir, de VAcad. des inscript, T, x. Galliot. Dissert, sur le dieu Serapis. Am- sterd. 1760. The latter work I have not yet met with; and indeed my curiosity was so fully satisfied by the perusal of the former, that perhaps I have not done all that I might to gain a sight of it. The essay of the Abbe de Fontenu is a disser- tation on a medal of the younger Gordian, struck at Sinope, and on the history of that city. It contains some observations on the medal, which are not uninteresting, beside a mixture of C6 It seems to result from Herod. 11. 1 and 2 that Cyrus treated Amasis as his vassal : the only argument he can produce against the assertion of the Egyptians that Cyrus demanded their princess for his harem, is that Cambyses was not her son.