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CONTENTS.
Page - Tirhakah defeats Sennacherib. The Story of the Priests of Memphis about the Miracle of Rats. Extravagant Dates of ancient Authors
142 - Tirhakah's Name at Thebes. His Conquests. The Twelve Kings according to Herodotus
143 - Their Friendship and the Accidents which led to their Conduct towards Psamaticus, one of their Number
144 - Psamaticus banished to the Low Lands of Egypt; consults the Oracle of Buto (Latona)
145 - Enters into a Treaty with some Ionians and Carians, and dethrones the Eleven Kings. Rewards their Services. The Ancestors of the Interpreters taught Greek by them
146 - Diodorus's Account more probable. According to it, Psamaticus, having the District near the Mediterranean, established commercial Relations with the Greeks and Phœnicians, and afterwards availed himself of their Aid in dethroning his Colleagues
147 - The Title Melek given to the Twelve Kings
149 - 26th Dynasty. Reign of Psamaticus. Edifice where Apis was shown
150 - 240,000 Soldiers desert from Psamaticus, and retire to Ethiopia
152 - Name of the Part of the Country they inhabited. Azotus taken
154 - Experiment to ascertain the oldest Language
155 - Liberal Policy of Psamaticus towards Foreigners, followed by Amasis and Nectanebo. The advance of the Scythians stopped by Psamaticus. Neco II.
157 - Neco's Fleets in the Mediterranean and Red Seas. Voyage of Discovery round Africa. Other Expeditions for the same Purpose
158 - Neco, the first who sent Persons to double the Cape of Good Hope. An Objection offered by Herodotus, a strong Confirmation of the Truth of the Information he had received
160 - Canal to the Red Sea from the Nile
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