[108] Denon, Voyage en Egypte.
[109] We might cite in confirmation all the travellers who have visited the western border of Egypt.
[110] These phenomena are very well treated of in M. Deluc’s Letters to the Queen of England, in the parts where he describes the peat-mosses of Westphalia; and in his Letters to Lametherie, inserted in the Journal de Physique for 1791, &c. as well as in those which he has addressed to Blumenbach. We may refer also to the very interesting details which are given in note F, respecting the islands of the west coast of the Duchy of Sleswick, and the manner in which they have been joined, whether to one another, or to the continent, by alluvial depositions and peat-mosses, as well as respecting the irruptions of the sea which from time to time have destroyed or separated some of their parts.
[111] The period of Cyrus, about 650 years before the Christian era.
[112] The period of Ninus, about 2348 years before Christ, according to Ctesias, and those who have followed him; but only 1250, according to Volney, after Herodotus.
[113] Herodotus lived 440 years before Christ.
[114] Cadmus, Pherecydes, Aristæus of Proconnesus, Acusilaus, Hecatæus of Miletum, Charon of Lampsacus, &c. See Vossius, Histor. Græc. lib. i., and especially his fourth book.
[115] Note N.
[116] The Septuagint, 5345 years; the Samaritan text, 4869; the Hebrew text, 4174.
[117] There is a difference of several years among chronologists with respect to each of these events; but these migrations form, notwithstanding, the peculiar and very remarkable feature of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries before the christian era. Thus, according to the calculations of Usserius, Cecrops came from Egypt to Athens about 1556 years before Christ; Deucalion settled on Parnassus about 1548; Cadmus arrived from Phenicia at Thebes about 1493; Danaus came to Argos about 1485; and Dardanus established himself on the Hellespont about 1449. All these founders of nations must therefore have been nearly contemporary with Moses, whose migration took place in 1491. Consult further, regarding the synchronism of Moses, Danaus and Cadmus, Diodorus, lib. xi; in Photius, p. 1152.