Chapter XIX: On the History of Merge

Obscurity of her Annals. — Historical Associations
necessary to render a Country interesting. — Works of Art
historical Documents. — Lapidary Inscriptions. — Amunoph
III. — Memnon, King of Ethiopia. — Expedition of
Semiramis, Queen of Assyria, into Ethiopia. — Ethiopians
in the Army of Shishak marched to Jerusalem. — The
Sukkiims of Scripture. — Expedition of Zerah, the
Ethiopian King of the Bible, and his Defeat by the Tribes
of Judah and Benjamin. — The Ethiopian Dynasty of Kings
who reigned over Egypt. — The Testimony of the Historians
proved by lapidary Inscriptions. — The Name of Tirhaka,
King of Ethiopia, who defeated Sennacherib, King of
Assyria, found both on the Monuments of Egypt and
Ethiopia. — The Names and Titles of this Dynasty of
Kings. — Accordance of the Scriptural, monumental, and
historical Evidences. — The Sethos of Herodotus, the
Tirhaka of Scripture and of the Monuments. — The Sua,
King of Egypt of the Bible, the Sevechus of Manetho, and
the Shabatok of the Monuments 284

CHAPTER XX.

The Emigration of Egyptian Soldiers at the Time of
Psammitichus. — Expedition of Cambyses. — Manners,
Customs, &c. of the Macrobians, &c. — Curious Customs of
the Ethiopians. — Ergamenes, the Ethiopian King’s,
Conquests in Lower Nubia. — Atarraman and Silco,
Ethiopian Kings. — Expedition of Petronius. — Queen
Candace. — Christianity first introduced into Ethiopia. —
Its Duration. — Napata, Capital of Candace. — Blemmyes
and the Nubians 306

CHAPTER XXI.

ON THE COMMERCE OF MEROE.

Requisites for a State enjoying extensive Commerce. —
Advantageous Position of Meroe. — Probable Extent of her
Commerce. — The Facility afforded to its Extension by
Means of the Camel. — Commerce of Arabia and India. —
Abundance of Gold. — Iron and Gum. — Ethiopian Tribute to
Egypt. — Description of a splendid Ethiopian Procession
at Thebes. — Commerce of the Interior. — Causes of the
Decline of Meroe. — Diminution of her agricultural
Resources. — Exhaustion of Mines. — Rivalry of Egypt. —
Wars with Egypt. — Arab Conquest. — Present Commerce 321