"'The Egyptians,' says Syncellus, 'boast of a certain Old Chronicle, by which also, in my opinion, Manetho (the impostor) was led astray.' ... The origin of this fiction is obvious. Its object, as well as that of the pseudo-Manetho, is to represent the great year of the world of 36,525 years, or twenty-five Sothic cycles. The _timeless_ space of the book of Sothis becomes the rule of Vulcan.... _The number fixed for the other gods, 3984, is quite original_; perhaps it may not be mere accident that it agrees with the computation of some chronographers for the period from the Creation to B.C. The dynasty of the demigods reflects the same judicious moderation as in the scheme of the pseudo-Manetho (214-1/2). Then comes a series of corruptions of the genuine Manetho, _i.e._, of the Manetho of the thirty historical Egyptian dynasties. He is, however, confounded with the Manetho of the Dog-star, and hence it is that the fifteen dynasties of Manetho are called the fifteen dynasties of the Sothiac cycle. _But how is the number 443 to be explained?_ Is this entry to be understood in the same sense as the similar one in Clemens, namely, that the first fifteen dynasties comprehended the 443 years prior to the beginning of the last cycle, consequently prior to 1322? or is it simply taken, with a slight alteration by Eusebius, to the fourteenth and fifteenth dynasties (435)? The following dates for the length of reigns are in the gross _evidently_ borrowed from Eusebius.... In the sequel, there is no more reckoning by dynasties, but seventy-five generations are numbered, in order to make up the 113 of Manetho. So palpable is that,.... Lastly, the dates and numbers ... are brought into shape by various arbitrary expedients; but Eusebius on all occasions appears as the authority.... As the dates of the individual dynasties now run, 184 years are wanting to make up the promised 36,525 years. _It is scarcely worth while to inquire where the mistake lies._" He finally pronounces the Old Chronicle to be the compilation of a Jewish or Christian impostor of the third century, or later. As Mr Palmer has not directly adverted to this passage from Bunsen in his "Egyptian Chronicles," I will give an extract from a letter which I have received from Mr Palmer on the subject, which will clear off some of the tissues of confusion into which the strictures of Baron Bunsen have got entangled.