Directory_and_Chronicle_1845 — Page 342

Directories & Chronicles 香港指南 All

No.

Reign

23

3. THE HIA Dynasty.

Year of Oycle.

Cotemporary Events.

7:13 Division of the earth, 2200; Gen. xi. 18.

1.

8 2205

2 9❘ 2197

7:21

3. 29 2188

7:30

4.13 2159

7:59

6.† 28† 2146

6. 61 2118

7. 17 2057

8. 26

8:12

8:40 The kingdom of Sicyon established,

2089, and the first pyramid built.

9:41

2040 8:58

9. 18

18 2014 10:24

10. 16 1996 10:42

Abraham born 1992.

il.

59

1980 | 10:58

12. | 21

1921

11:57 Abraham goes into Egypt, 1916.

13. | 21

1900 12:18

14. | 31

1879 | 12:39

15.| 11

1848 13:10

13:10 Kingdom of Argos founded 1886.

16. 19 1837

17. 52

13:21 Memmon, the Egyptian invents letters,

1822 13:40

Dating the commencement of the building of Babel from about the year 2230, and presuming that the dispersion, which soon followed, drove mankind eastward to the Yellow river, it is possible, and per- haps probable, that Yü was the founder of the Chinese empire. The allusion to his draining off the waters of a deluge seems to support. this supposition. All the records extant, regarding this dynasty, are of

very doubtful authenticity.

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