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CONTENTS.
Page - Early State of Egypt, when Joseph arrived. Man in the infant State of Society
13 - The Hunter, Shepherd, and Agriculturist
14 - The Richness of the Soil of Egypt tended to its early Civilisation. Primeval History of States uncertain and fabulous
15 - Original Form of Government in Egypt, a Hierarchy and afterwards a Monarchy. No Egyptian Deity ever supposed to have reigned on Earth
16 - The Story of Osiris purely allegorical, and a profound and curious Mystery. Mistake of Herodotus in the Word Pirômi
17 - The Dynasties of Manetho. The 18th partially agrees with the Monuments. Number of Kings between Menes and the Persian Invasion, and the Time elapsed
18 - The Pyramids, the oldest Monuments in Egypt. Their probable Date. Little known before Osirtasen I.
19 - Shepherd Kings uncertain, not the Jews
20 - Foreign Conquests of the Egyptians date as early as the Reign of Osirtasen I.
21 - Monuments before Osirtasen's Reign. The Invasion of the Shepherds, previous to the 17th Dynasty
22 - List of Kings from Herodotus and Diodorus
24 - Dynasties of Manetho
25 - Great Uncertainty in Manetho's Dynasties
35 - Theban Kings according to Eratosthenes
37 - The Shepherds probably Assyrians
38 CHAP. II. - History of Egypt and List of Kings from Menes to the End of the 17th Dynasty
40 - Accession of Osirtasen I., 1740 B.C.
43 - State of Civilisation and the Arts at that Period. Game of Draughts, and other Amusements
44 - Early Wars. Mines in the Desert
45 - Ports on the Red Sea, for Commerce with Arabia
46 - List of the Kings of the 18th Dynasty
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