Part II. Travels into thehEVA}^ 
whereof (as I remember) I have already written : Nevertbelefs as I took plea- 
furc to view it over and over again, fo, poffibly, the Curious will not take ic 
ill that I impart to them my oblèrvations. I meaftired the ftiadow of it, at 
the time when fhadows are equal to the bodies which caufe them, and I 
found the body of it to be threefcore and fifteen foot high, without reckon- 
ing the Pedeftal and Cornifh ; but the {hadow was upon a very declining 
ground : Another day when the fhadows were the double of the Bodies, I 
found near an hundred and threefcore foot, onely of the body of it, and 
eight foot of diameter or breadth; and I obferved that the Pedeftal is near 
twelve foot high. All know that the Cornifh of this Pillar is of the Corintlnan 
. order. 
The fame day alfo I faw fomething very remarkable, which I had not fuffi- 
ciently confidered in my former Travels. Being abroad with fome others by 
the gare Del Fepe, which looks betwixt South and Weft, about a thoufand 
paces from that gate, as we went betwixt South and Weft, ftreight towards 
the Palus Mareotis, leaving the Pillar of Pompej to the left, we (aw Grotto's 
cut in the Rock : we entered into one of them, ftoopingand leaning upon our ^"'■ying pi^- 
hands, with lighted Wax-candles ; being within we found that the Roof was ck^j"^'^'^ ^" 
above ten foot high, cut very fi-nooth , and on all fides we faw Sepulchres ans. 
made in the Wall, which is the Rock it (elf ; and of thefe there are four Sto- 
ries, one over another, and from one range to another, and from Story to 
Story, there is but half a foots diftance ; fo that the intervals feem to be fo 
many Pillars, which fupport thofe that are over them ; their depth reaches 
to the bottom of the Sepulchres, and fo they (erve for Walls to feparare the 
one from the other. In thefe Sepulchres we faw many dead mens Bones 
which we handled, and found them to be asfrefh and hard as if the men had 
died but the day before : There were fome lying upon the ground at the 
Entry into the Grotto , which had been thrown our there ; Ï handled and 
broke fome of them, and found that they were rotten in the air, but they 
crumbled not int^ afhes, onely broke longways hke rotten Eider, nay they 
were alfo moift, and had a kind of marrow within. 
Coming out of that Grotto, we entered into another oppofite unto it, 
where we faw Sepulchres as in the other : at the bottom we found a way 
that led very far in, but becaufe we muft have gone double, in the manner 
as we entered the firft Gotto, and marched in that pofture at leaft as far as 
we could fee by the light of our Wax-candles; we thought beft not to enter 
in, and be contented with the Relation we had, that it reached above two 
French Leagues in length. This was all that we could learn from the Turks who 
were with us, and who told us befides that the Ancient Inhabitants of Alex- 
andria had dugg thofe places to lay their dead in ; there is a great deal of pro- 
bability ofthe truth of that, and thatit has been fome burying-place. I then 
confidered the Pains Marcotts : it reaches in breadth out of fight, and is but Palus Mareo- 
fome hundred of paces diftant from the KbaUs, which hath its courfe betwixt f"- 
the fame Palus Mareotis and thQ VWhr of Pom^jej; but they have no commu- 
nication together. 
Another day I went up to the Hill, where the Tower is, wherein there is 
commonly a Watchman, to put out the Flag fo (bon as any Velîcl appears : A Watch- 
from thence I eafily difeovered all the City and the Sea, with the Palm Ma- Tower, 
reom, and all the Countrey about : Being come down I went on Foot round ji^^ circuit o'' 
the Ancient Walls of Alexandria, ^ beginning at the Water-gate, that looks to Alcxmina^' 
the North, and for fome time going Itreight North, till the Wall turns off in 
a right Angle, towards the Eaft ; and after fifty paces length, turns again to- , 
wards the North, making there an obtule Angle : it continues fo towards the 
North, till you come over againft the Palace of C/es/'<?rr<2, which ftood upon the The Palace 
Walls oppofite to the mouth of the Harbour, having a Gallery running out- Ckcpatra. 
wards fupported by many fair Pillars , of which fome remains are ftill to 
be feen on the Sca-fide: That Gallery (they fay, and not without probabiHty) 
reached even into the Palace, fo that one might embark there. 
In a Tower hard by, are to be feen three Pillars ftanding, which fupporc 
a little Dome, that in former times ftood upon four, but there is one wanting ; 
I cannot conceive for what ule that little Dome was, being in a place where 
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