46Q OBSERVATIONS ON ALEXANDRIA. 
small artificial harbour called Kibotus, whence a navigable canal 
extended to the Lake Mareotis. This appears to have been the same 
as the modern Calish, and at once points out its position, which is 
still more confirmed by the line of the great street ending at that very 
place, and by the numerous heaps of ruins which are discoverable 
there, though under the water. The tower at G has every appear- 
ance of having belonged to the original walls, and I am inclined to 
think, that the town extended no farther on the banks of the port, 
from the expression used by Strabo, that " without the canal, was 
a small part of the city." Beyond was the Necropolis, and still 
farther at a distance of thirty stadia, or three miles, was Nicopolis^ 
which, at the time of Strabo, had drawn from Alexandria many of 
its inhabitants who attended the amphitheatre, the stadium, and the 
celebration of the five years games. 
The ruins at 9, 10, 1 1, and 12, are by no means considerable, nor 
would it be easy to conjecture for what purpose they were intended. 
Some of the spaces were too small for a human body, even of an 
infant, but others were evidently intended for sepulchres, and were 
lined with a very hard plaister, of a red colour. The ruin at No. 10, 
was a single room, one hundred and five feet long, divided in the 
centre by a row of square pillars, and had been originally arched ; 
it had no connection with the water, but extended farther inland 
than we could trace the foundations. 
According to Strabo, Alexandria was in breadth seven or eight 
stadia, which will preclude the idea of its not having contained the 
vast piles of ruin around Dioclesian's pillar, as any line drawn from 
the sea to the Calish within them, must greatly exceed that distance, 
nor could, in that case, the figure of a mantle, rounded at the 
