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It may turn out that this dynasty was connected with the
Hyksos, or Shepherd kings, who formed the fifteenth, six-
teenth, and seventeenth dynasties of the Egyptian kings, and
about whom next to nothing as yet is known. It is sup-
posed that they ruled at San from B.C. 2214 to 1703, some
five hundred years, and that they were foreigners.

Again, further discoveries in India, Assyria, and .Baby-
lonia may reveal something more about these Peshdudians,
who may also have made conquests in these countries, or
emigrations to them. Mr. Shea, at page 206 of his trans-
lation, gives an interesting note, in which it is stated that
some of these kings of the Peshdadian dynasty, such as
Jernsheed, Zohak, and Feridoon, are said to have reigned
six hundred, one thousand, and live hundred years respec-
tively. It has been supposed that these names represented
dynasties, and 'to the three dynasties of Jernsheed, Zohak,
and Feridoon. we find among the Greeks the three cor-
responding dynasties of the (Jhaldasans, Arabs, and Bole-
taras, in the series of tho kings of Nineveh and Assyria/
In the first volume of this work, at page 10S, Mirkhowl
mentions Xohfik, the Arab, as living at tho time of tho
prophet Hftd, who lived some time between Noah and
Abraham (page 98).

THE KAIANIAN DYNASTY.

Of this dynasty, Kaikobad was the first monarch, and
his first business appears to have been to declare war
against Afrasiab, whoso dynasty it is supposed was still
extant, for Afrasiab himself was dethroned from Iran
B.C. 7CG, or sixty years previously. Anyhow, war was
declared, and Kustam Dasfcan, tho great Persian hero, now
appears upon the scene, and mainly by his efforts Afrasiftb
was defeated, and sued for peace, which was granted.
Kaikobad then reigned tranquilly for a very long period,
and was succeeded by Kai Kaoos [Cambyses ?], some say
the son, others the grandson of the first king. Kai K&oos
appears to have been engaged in wars a great part of his
life, the descriptions of which occupy some twenty-four