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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1850 Excerpt:...intellectual and historical glories of a small state--but a great people--but also for imparting the enjoyment of his treasures to all capable of appreciating them. Believe me yours, very truly, S. Birch. Rev. Richard Cattermole. THE HISTORICAL RESULTS OF THE EXCAVATIONS BUBASTIS. BT EDOUARD NAVILLE. A PAPER READ BEFORE TBE VICTORIA INSTITUTE. AUTHOR'S COPY. I THE HISTORICAL RESULTS OF THE EXCAVATIONS AT BUBASTIS. By Edouard Naville. THE King of Babylon had led into captivity part of tho population of the kingdom of Judah; the inhabitants of Jerusalem had turned a deaf ear to the warnings of the prophet Ezekiel, and the threatened judgment had fallen on them. Standing near the river Chebar, in a strange land, the prophet turns for a while from his unfortunate countrymen, and, looking towards the neighbouring nations, predicts that some day the storm will burst upon them. The curse of Egypt is one of the most striking and the most terrible. Thus saith the Lord God: " I will also destroy the idols, and I will cause the images to cease from Noph; and there shall be no more a prince out of the land of Egypt; and I will put a fear in the land of Egypt. And I will make Pathros desolate, and will set a fire in Zoan, and will execute judgments in No. And I will pour my fury upon Sin, the stronghold of Egypt; and I will set a fire in Egypt; Sin shall be in great anguish, and No shall be broken up: and Noph shall have adversaries in the day-time. The young men of Aven and of Pi-beseth shall fall by the sword: and these cities shall go into captivity " (Ezek. xxx. 13-18). It is interesting to notice the cities which are mentioned by B the prophet. They are clearly the most important, and those which were best known to his countrymen. I shall not insist here...