In the conviction that this is the case, and that it is not sufficiently known that it is so, I shall devote some space to an abstract of Mr William Palmer's "Egyptian Chronicles" (1861), in which it appears to me that this exposition and solution is to be found. Mr Palmer at least has brought the Egyptian chronology (upon the system of the Old Chronicle) to so close a reconciliation with Scripture (upon the basis of a collation of the Septuagint and Josephus), that we have a right to compare any Egyptologist making an attempt to advance into the interior to the monuments, whilst disregarding it, to a commander leaving an important fortress in his rear.[76] As Mr Palmer takes his stand upon the Old Chronicle, and as the Old Chronicle has been in considerable disrepute with Egyptologists (Bunsen, i. 216), I do not see that I can adopt a better plan of bringing the whole subject before the reader, than by confronting Mr W. Palmer's discovery and exposition with Baron Bunsen's strictures on the Old Chronicle. [76] And yet, with the exception of Professor Rawlinson's "Manual of Ancient History," where mention is made of Mr Palmer's work as among eight principal works to be referred to on the subject of Egyptian chronology, and of a series of articles in the _Month_ on the same subject, I do not recollect to have seen allusion made to it. A previous perusal of the articles in the _Month_ above referred to will greatly facilitate the study of this question. Bunsen (i. 214-217) says (the italics are mine)--