The opinions of Sir G. Wilkinson are eminently entitled to respect on all Egyptian questions; and I need not apologize for quoting his opinions (however they may differ from those just given,) as briefly expressed in the following passage. “In manners, language, and many other respects, Egypt was certainly more Asiatic than African; and though there is no appearance of the Hindoo and Egyptian religions having been borrowed from one another, which many might be induced to conclude from their great analogy in some points, yet it is not improbable that these two nations may have proceeded from the same stock, and have migrated southward from their parent country in central Asia.”—Ancient Egypt, Vol. I., p. 3. Footnote 89: St. Augustine states that the Punic or Phenician tongue was in _his_ day (the fifth century) a living language, and very like the Hebrew; and that the _Canaanitish_ language was _mediate_ between the Egyptian and the Hebrew. Mrs. H. Gray. Hist, of Etruria, p. 124. Footnote 90: Transactions of the Royal Society of Literature, Vol. I., p. 140. Footnote 91: Appeal to the Antiquarians of Europe on the destruction of the monuments of Egypt. By George R. Gliddon. p. 27. The portrait of Atenre-Backhan, another of these Hykshos kings, will be found in Wilkinson, second series, Plate XXX. Footnote 92: Prichard, Researches, Vol. III., p. 441. Footnote 93: Champollion, Monumens, Tom. I., Plate XXXVI. Footnote 94: Mrs. H. Gray, History of Etruria, Vol. I., p. 31, 39. Footnote 95: Voyage en Egypte, I., p. 206. Footnote 96: Trav. in Egypt, II., p. 168. See also Volney, Voyage, I., p. 70. Footnote 97: Trav. in Africa, p. 77. Footnote 98: Modern Egyptians, II., p. 310. Footnote 99: Monumenti, M. C. II., p. 77. Footnote 100: Prichard, Researches, II., p. 238. Footnote 101: Trav. in Nubia, p. 217. Footnote 102: For ample details of this interesting question, see D’Avezac, Esquisse générale de l’Afrique, p. 55; and Hodgson on the Foulahs of Central Africa, p. 5, _et passim_. Footnote 103: Trav. in Nubia, p. 353. Footnote 104: Prichard, Researches &c. vol. II. p. 174. Footnote 105: Voyage à Meroë, II., p. 276. Footnote 106: Edinburgh Review, Vol. LX., p. 311. Footnote 107: Idem., p. 307. The antiquity of the name Nubia, is of some importance in this discussion. Heeren and others state that it first occurs in history during the epoch of the Ptolemies; but Rosellini has now discovered that it is at least as old as the age of Menepthah I., (B.C. 1600,) on whose monuments it is found.