fhall be no more a prince of the land of Egypt 3. But as chronology, or the referring the reign of each prince, and the events that happened in his reign, to their proper dates, is the light of hiftory, and without it the best, and, in other refpects, moft exact relations, would be only a chaos of facts heaped together, we ought to fettle the Egyptian chronology before we enter upon the hiftory of the Egyptian kings. But here the guides we have hitherto followed, either quite forfake us, or give us fuch information as we can by no means depend on, having been themfelves grofly impofed upon by forged records, and false traditions. All we can do therefore is, to acquaint the reader with the fentiments of the antients on this subject, and the various hypothefes, and chronological fyftems, which the moderns have built upon what they found in the antients. But, for the better understanding of what shall be, said, it will be neceffary to exhibit the series of the kings of Egypt, according to the feveral authors who have recorded their fucceffions.

I. ATABLE of the last fixteen of the thirty dynasties, according to the old Egyptian chronicle, the fourteen first dynasties being wanting.

chron. p. 51, 52. EUSEB. chron. Græc. SYNCELL. p. 45, &c.

The IV. dynafty of Mem-1 The IV. dynasty of Mem

The VI. dynasty of Mem- The VI. dynasty of Mem

12 Nitocris

The XII. dynasty of Diofpo- | The XII. dynasty of Diofpolites, confifting of feven lites, confifting of feven

1. Sefynchoris reigned

38 2. Ammenemes