ALEXANDRIA. 



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While the alluvia brought by the marine currents were developing the isthmus 

 of the " Heptastadium," which was further enlarged and elevated by the ruins of 

 a city more than once destroyed and rebuilt, the other parts of the neighbouring 



Fig. 133. — Abukir and Alexandria. 

 Scale 1 : 350,000. 



Pg-'SO' 



L . of Ljr-eenwich 



50-10' 



to 3J 

 Feet. 



Depths. 



32 to SO 

 Feet. 



80 to 160 

 Feet. 



6 Miles. 



160 Feet and 

 upwards. 



seaboard appear to have undergone the opposite movement of subsidence during 

 the same historic period. Roads, quays, old quarries, tombs excavated in the 

 cliffs along the adjacent coast, as well as the works known by the name of " Cleo- 

 patra's Baths," are still constantly encroached upon by the marine waters, even 



