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PART I.

ifted before the time of Alexander, was fituated in
that part where D’Anville places it; for fuch I con-
ceive to be the plain fenfe of Strabo’s words. He fays,
it was v7rspxs'ifJLmv tojv Ng&pcyy, lying [juft] above the
Docks: and where the Docks are fituated, he very clearly
defines at p. 1143 ; when, having in his defcription of
Alexandria, travelled round the Great Port from the
promontory of Lochias as far as the Heptaftadium, and
marked with great exadtnefs all the principal objects in
his route, he places the docks immediately to the eaft
of the Heptaftadium : Eirct to Kcuoupiov, Kgoi to EjUTropSov,
■y ’Ams"elms' [jL£wl tolvtvl ta neapia, ™ 'E

Tcujwl fjftjj to iffep tov ^jryoLV 7\i(Avct.

But though I allow that the Rhacotis of Strabo was
fituated near the docks of the Great Port, and that
the Site of it was probably enclofed within the walls of
the New City by Dinocrates; yet no evidence what-
ever has been produced, that the term Rhacotis was re-
tained by this architect, as exprefling a diftineft quarter,
or dijiriSl, of the city.

Strabo’s words—'Pcl/mtiv, y\ vvv ttJs ’AAs%cLvtye&>v 'Gfotew
gV/ /OLSgos—“ Rhacotis, which is now become a part of
“ the city of the Alexandrians—” imply, to my appre-
henflon, that it was totally abforbed in it, and had loft
both its figure and its name. That Strabo fhould men-