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and lower egypt.
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CHAP. VIII.
Modern Alexandria—Its inhabitants—Jews—Spirit
of revenge—Assassination of the Consul of Alex-
andria, and of a Dutchman—Language—Ruins.
I must advertise the reader, that having sojourned
oftener than once at Alexandria, I shall present
my observations in a regular series, though made
at different eras. I shall quit therefore, for a few
moments, the form of the relation, and shall de-
scribe, by a single stroke, what I saw there at se-
veral intervals, and without restricting myself to
the order of the dates of my several remarks. I
shall observe the same rule, which appeared to me
more natural, and more corrimodious to the public,
when I have to speak of any other object which I
may have visited at different times.
" To write on the subject of the city of Alex-
" andria minutely, after so many great personages,"
says an excellent observer who travelled in Egypt
in the reign of Francis I. " would be only to say
" the same thing over again *." Since the era at
which Bellon wrote, many authors, among whom
may be reckoned more than one great personage, have
* Bellon, Observ. book ii. ch. 19.
H 3
given
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CHAP. VIII.
Modern Alexandria—Its inhabitants—Jews—Spirit
of revenge—Assassination of the Consul of Alex-
andria, and of a Dutchman—Language—Ruins.
I must advertise the reader, that having sojourned
oftener than once at Alexandria, I shall present
my observations in a regular series, though made
at different eras. I shall quit therefore, for a few
moments, the form of the relation, and shall de-
scribe, by a single stroke, what I saw there at se-
veral intervals, and without restricting myself to
the order of the dates of my several remarks. I
shall observe the same rule, which appeared to me
more natural, and more corrimodious to the public,
when I have to speak of any other object which I
may have visited at different times.
" To write on the subject of the city of Alex-
" andria minutely, after so many great personages,"
says an excellent observer who travelled in Egypt
in the reign of Francis I. " would be only to say
" the same thing over again *." Since the era at
which Bellon wrote, many authors, among whom
may be reckoned more than one great personage, have
* Bellon, Observ. book ii. ch. 19.
H 3
given