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"They were already laid out e left Alexandria," said Thyone

"And they have grown marvellously, as if creative Nature had doubled her powers in their behalf," Her miracles here Industrious hands reared an actualpath leads to the top, and when you stand upon the summit and look northward you at first feel like the sailor who steps on shore and hears the people speak a language which is new to hiless sounds until he learns, not only to understand the words, but also to distinguish the sentences Temples and palaces, statues and columns appear everywhere in motley confusion Each one, if you separate it froive it a careful examination, is worthy of inspection, nay, of adraceful creations of Hellenic, yonder heavy, soround the exquisite azure of the eternal sea, which the marvellous structure of the heptastadiuhthouse of Sostratus towers aloft alht points out the way to ht Countless vessels are also at anchor in the Eunostus The riches of the whole earth flow into both havens And the life and movement there and in the inland harbour on Lake Mareotis, where the Nile boats land! Fro, what an abundance of wares--and how oods are made in our own city! for whatever useful, fine, and costly articles industrial art produces are manufactured here The roof has not yet been put onbeautiful things Here the weaver's shuttle flies, yonder gold is spun around slender threads of sheep guts, elsewhere costly ers with the prepared gold thread There glass is blown, or weapons and iron utensils are forged Finely polished knives split the pith of the papyrus, and long rows of workether No hand, no head is perreat thinkers and investigators are toiling Here, too, reality asserts its rights The time for chi, fatho friend," Proclus interrupted the artist "I know that you, too, sat at the feet of some of the philosophers in the Museus of Straton, which your fellow-pupil, King Ptolenised in philosophy, first of all, the bond which unites the widely sundered acquisitions of the intellect, the vital breath which pervades them, the touchstone which proves each true or false If the praise of Alexandria is to be sung, we et the library to which the e of the East and West are flowing, and which feeds those who thirst for knowledge with the intellectual gains of for, and, that I may be just, to his illustrious wife; for wherever in the Grecian world a friend of the Muses appears, whether he is investigator, poet, architect, sculptor, artist, actor, or singer, he is drawn to Alexandria, and, that hefroh"