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being found on many other monuments, accompanied
with proper names, he concludes that they are those of
kings, who bore those proper names, which has given
him nearly the same kings, and in the same order, as
those of which Manetho composed his eighteenth
dynasty, that which drove out the pastoral kings or
shepherds. The concordance, however, is not complete:
in the painting of Abydos, six of the names found in
Manetho's list are wanting; there are others which do
not resemble them; and, unfortunately, there is a break
before the most remarkable of all — the Rhameses,
who appears the same as the king represented on so
many of the finest monuments, with the attributes of a
great conqueror. It should be, according to M.
Champollion in Mianetho's list, the Sethos, chief of
the nineteenth dynasty, who, in fact, is pointed out as
po ent in ships and horsemen, and as having carried his
arms into Cyprus, Media and Persia. M. Chainpollion
thinks, with Marsham and many others, that it is
Rhameses or this Sethos, who is the Sesostris or
Sesoosis of the Greeks; and this supposition is
probable, in the sense that the representations of the
victories of Rharneses, obtained probably over the
wandering tribes near Egypt, or at farthest, over
Scythia, have given rise to the fabulous tales of the
vast conquests, attributed by some confusion, to a
Sesoostris; but in Manetho it is in the twelfth dynasty,
and not in the eighteenth, which has a prince named
Sesostris, marked as the conqueror of Asia and
Thrace.(1) Marshain pretends that this twelfth(2)
dynasty and the eighteenth form only one. Manetho
could not then have comprehended
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