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Excerpt from The XXII. Egyptian Royal Dynasty: With Some Remarks on XXVI. And Other Dynasties of the New Kingdom Dynasty, which, like the other, was situated on one of the eastern arms of the Nile. The modern ruins of Tel Basta represent the site of the ancient Bubastis, which was in the neighbourhood of the Biblical Goshen if indeed it did not belong to it. According to Herodotus, it was at Bubastis that the famed canal Was drawn off from the Nile, which was carried by ramses-sesostris only eastward to the Low Plains of the Desert, afterwards by N eko to the Bitter Lakes, but taken by Darius into the Red Sea; and thus became the first junction canal betwixt the Red and Mediterranean Seas. It is well known that it was on this Ramses Canal that the Israelites were forced to build the towns Pithom (patumos of Herodotus) and Ramses, so called from its founder, Ramses II.; after they doubtless had been compelled to the same hard serfdom on the canal which necessitated the building of those cities. We may therefore fancy that country immediately adjacent to the Arabian Desert as principally inhabited by a Semitic people and its descendants; and this explains to us the abnormal, un-egyptian character in the royal names of this Bubastic Dynasty, which has been already frequently remarked by other parties, and to which we shall subsequently recur. We have now to do with a royal race of Semitic origin, which therefore may have been related to, and possibly were, the descendants of those harassed and expelled Israelites, that doubtless had settled for the greater part in Bubastis, the principal town of that neighbourhood. The conqueror of Jerusalem sprung from a Semitic family in Bubastis. 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, pre