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29, &c.) * Note: The recent extraordinary discoveries in Egyptian antiquities strongly confirm the high notion of the early Egyptian civilization, and imperatively demand a longer period for their development.

As to the common Hebrew chronology, as far as such a subject is capable of demonstration, it appears to me to have been framed, with a particular view, by the Jews of Tiberias.

It was not the chronology of the Samaritans, not that of the LXX., not that of Josephus, not that of St.Paul .-- M.] [Footnote 56: Eight millions of Roman modii, besides a contribution of 80,000 aurei for the expenses of water-carriage, from which the subject was graciously excused.

See the 13th Edict of Justinian: the numbers are checked and verified by the agreement of the Greek and Latin texts.] [Footnote 57: Homer's Iliad, vi.289.These veils, were the work of the Sidonian women.

But this passage is more honorable to the manufactures than to the navigation of Phoenicia, from whence they had been imported to Troy in Phrygian bottoms.] [Footnote 58: See in Ovid (de Arte Amandi, iii.