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OBSERVATIONS ON ALEXANDRIA. 455 
extremity of the Calish to have been the boundary of the city on 
the shore of the Old Harbour, or the Eunostus. The assertion of 
Pliny, that it is fifteen miles round, is totally impossible within the 
bounds of the sea and lake ; but the form which he has described, 
as having been given to it by Dinochares, is probably more correct, 
though some latitude must be allowed to the expression of its resem- 
bling a Macedonian mantle. It probably ran nearly in a straight line 
along the sea shore, from the spot in the Eunostus where the Calish 
enters, to the French lines, where the angular extremities might 
be supposed to end. The regularity of this line w^ould be alone 
interrupted by the projection of the Httle Pharos, for the isthmus 
on which the new town stands was not then in existence. The curve 
at the corners, which Pliny mentions, is more difficult to ascertain, 
as Strabo mentions that the length towards the lake was thirty 
stadia, or the same as that towards the sea, while the sides were 
seven or eight. It can at any rate have been but small, and pro- 
bably included the Serapeum ; and after running along in the direc- 
tion of the Calish, turned up rapidly towards the sea, leaving on 
the outside, the S. E. heaps of ruins, which were covered with for- 
tifications by the French. 
The city is described by Strabo as having been laid out in regular 
streets, passable for horses and carriages, two of which were particu- 
larly large, and crossed each other at right angles. Of the actual 
position of one of these, which extended from the gate of Canopus 
to the port Eunostus, there can be no doubt, for the vacant space 
still remains, and is easily to be traced in the map, from the letter 
F to G ; and it appears probable, that the street which crossed it 
extended from C to H. When, under the Mussulmaun government, 
