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 part of that Book, and occasioned its being the more taken Notice of; so that this History being injurious to the vain pretences of that People, might very probably provoke some that were jealous for the Honour of their Nation, and Manetho amongst the rest, to set up an Anti-History to that of Moses; and to dedicate it to the same Prince who employed the Jews to translate the Pentateuch, and who ordered Manetho himself to bring him in an Account of the Egyptian Antiquities, that so any Prejudices which Ptolemee, who was of another Nation himself, might entertain against their Country, might be effectually removed.

This Notion is the more probable in our Case, because it equally holds, whether we follow Sir John Marsham's Accounts, who has made the Egyptian Antiquities intelligible; or whether they are left in the same Confusion that they were in before. That most Learned Gentleman has reduced the wild Heap of Egyptian Dynasties into as narrow a Compass as the History of Moses, according to the Hebrew Account, by the help of a Table of the Theban Kings, which he found under Eratosthenes's Name, in the Chronography of Syncellus. For, by that Table he 1. Distinguished the Fabulous and