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has loft*, ''Nothing more is neceflary," fays 

 ** he, " to produce a conviâiion of this, than to 

 *' examine the coaft ; for you will fee, under wa- 

 *' ter, not only a variety of artificial productions, 

 *' manufadured in the rock, but, likewife, the 

 " ruins of many edifices. About two miles from 

 ^* Alexandria are to be feen, under water, the ruins 

 •* of an ancient temple." 



An anonymous Engliih traveller, in the journal 

 of a voyage ftored with excellent obfervations, de- 

 fcribcs feveral very ancient cities of the Archipe- 

 lago, fuch as Samos, the ruins of which are clofe 

 to the Sea. Hear what he fays of Delos, which is, 

 as every one knows, in the centre of the Cyclades-f-, 

 " We found nothing elfe, all along the coafl, but 

 *' the remains of fuperb edifices, which had never 

 ** been completed, and the ruins of others which 

 *' have been deftroyed. The Sea appears to have 

 *' gained on the Ifle of Delos; and the water be- 

 ** ing clear, and the weather calm, we had an op- 

 *' portunity of obferving the remains of beautiful 

 " buildings, in places where now the fifhes fwim 

 " at their eafe, and on which the fmall boats of 

 ** thefe cantons row, to get at the coaft." 



* Travels into Egypt. Vol. I. page 4 and 30. 

 t Voyage into France, Italy, and the Iflands of the Archi- 

 pelago, in 1763. Vol. iv. Letter cxxvii. page 256. 



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