St. Landry democrat., 1883-06-02
aoo who epitonizede the history OF Ma

netho-that 1.-THE time, would come
when the great history OF Manetho
would be as reliable as the best OF an
Gent histories But unfortunately the
great work has persisted, and we can
only geta portion Of the great work ID
an epitomized form, from the several
authors of repute who wrote in the ear
ly centuries Of the Christian Era. NO
monumental history Of this king, Me-
mes, has yet been discovered; but from |
the fact that his stature is represented I
borne in ancestral procession as late as
the reigns of the Rameses, at Ihebes, 1t
would seem to indicate that his memo
~ was held in very much the same rev
erence, as we give to that OF the ia
Their of Our Country" His successor
Atlothis wrote work on anatomy
and it is probable that the doctors IN
those far off days were as dextrous IN
stealing human bodies, and perhaps ID
tanning human hides, as they are now
in the vicinity Of Tewsbury. Other
kings of this dynasty, built some OF the
smaller pyramids. They all reigneds
$50 years. The second dynasty reigned
800 years. With the third dynasty
which lasted for 200 years, monumental
history properly begins. The fourth
dynasty, according to Lepsius, began
1897 years B. c., or more than lOOO
years before the flood, and according to
Boockh and Henry much more than 1000
wears before the creation of man, as
Bishop Usher interprets Bible chronolo-
gy. This dynasty which was in power
ss4 years, was celebrated, as well as the
18th, in the erection of vast structures,
which have became one of the seven
wonders of the world.
The arts and sciences were developed,
agriculture encouraged, wealth and
prosperity abounded, and Egypt was
raised to a great height of power and
glory. The elder of the two hhufus
Cheops, of tile 4th dynasty, built the
greatest of the seventy pyramids OF
Egypt, which is the grandest mausoleun
ever erected by man.
MANY have been the Wild specula-
, tions concerning this huge pile OF stone
The second adventists, and other rell-
! gious fanatics, have considered this
, pyramid as inpired; as designed by the
Deity, and built by divine aid in fact
, a huge volume, full of religious mystic,
ries and divine truths, which had beer
. sealed up for thousands of years, only
!, to be opened and its mysteries revealed
!, in the "last days" But the excava
. lions of Lord Vyse, who, alone spen
$4,000 in his researches, found thl
great pyramid to be only tomb TO
J mortal man.
= In the 9th year of the reign of Osirte
: sen II, Of the 18th dynasty, there ar
~ rived in Egypt So Anu or Semitic EN-
.. igrants, who, from the description Civ
y en- of them, are supposed to be Jaco
. and his family. How quickly the inter
!. est is revived at the sound OF this name
so familiar to old and young. TIL
- mind involuntarily reverts to the stor
a of Joseph and his brethren, and to th
= many beautiful and legendary storie
a connected with this grand old patriarch
- who died in the land of Goshen, a
most in sight of the great pyramid
- and being, it is said, one hundred an
al forty-seven years old.
or We have now reached the time I
,k Pharaohs of the Bible, having passe
G. from the fourth.to the twelfth dynast
MS an interval Of more than one thousar
rs years. During this time what wonde
full scenes had transpired Abraha
ar and Isaac and Jacob whose EVENT.
1t. Lives are so thrillingly narrated in i
nd | Bile history, have come and gone
ed hut Jacob, and Noah too, had preach
NJ to his wicked neighbors until hope h'
it'll fled. and he had built an ark OF abo
ar, the size of the steamship Great Easter
go and saved himself and family when t
mighty floods came, and engnlfed
he wicked world he being the only rigl
ro- cons man to be found on the face
IN the earth the last of the sever
OPP nyramids had been built, the great g
re- Of Thebes which spanned both sides
rth the Nile-the immense temple of Ii
our nak-the notation Of time, the divisi
Of Of the year. into three hundred a
an sixty-five days, twelve months Of thi
each the establishments of a system
rd- weights and measures, adjusted te
to pound of fourteen hundred grain
an learned in chemistry, geometry, astr'
B. omy and many of the fine arts; Egg.
ton literature too was not unkno'