[38] [Footnote 35: Observe the first chapter of Job, and the long wall of 1500 stadia which Sesostris built from Pelusium to Heliopolis, (Diodor.
Sicul.tom.i.l.i.

p.

67.) Under the name of Hycsos, the shepherd kings, they had formerly subdued Egypt, (Marsham, Canon.Chron.

p.
98-163) &c.) * Note: This origin of the Hycsos, though probable, is by no means so certain here is some reason for supposing them Scythians .-- M] [Footnote 36: Or, according to another account, 1200, (D'Herbelot, Bibliotheque Orientale, p.

75: ) the two historians who wrote of the Ayam al Arab, the battles of the Arabs, lived in the 9th and 10th century.