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Excerpt from Original Papers Read Before the Syro-Egyptian Society of London, Vol. 1: Part I The Philistim were an Egyptian colony, and their Abimi' lech and five Lords doubtless resulted from Pharaoh and his Princes - the heads Of the five Egyptian Hepzefivot, which seem again alluded To in the five cities of prophetic resto ration (isaiah xix. 18) while the law of Joseph, according to which a fifth of the land was at the disposal of Pharaoh, seems to connect itself, in common with other Egyptian Pentads, with this territorial distribution. Our Saxon Heptarchy was very Similar to this form of government, and exhibited all the phases from Monarchy to Heptarchy, and back again to Monarchy, from the reign of Hengist to that of Edgar. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.