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advisable to state any particulars, even regard- 
ing the modern history of the Alexandrian Soros, 
and that the remarkable fact of its being con- 
sidered by the Arabs as the Tomb of the Founder 
of their City had been suppressed, the author 
wrote to request, that a few copies of a Letter 
he had addressed to the Gentlemen of the 
British Museum upon the subject, might be dis- 
tributed gratis by the porter at the door : but he 
was answered, that this would not be approved. 
The question may therefore now rest, — and, 
as it is humbly conceived, not on the test of 
authority, but of evidence. If mere authority 
could have any weight, the author might safely 
adduce the opinions which have fallen, not from 
obscure individuals, but from illustrious and 
renowned men; from a Porsox, and a Parr, 
and a Zouch^; from scholars of the highest 
(1) Dr. Znuch's opinion upon this subject occurs in a Letter 
•written by the present Earl of Lonsdale to the Rev. tl. Sutterthxvuite, 
of Jesus College, Cambridge, Chaplain in Ordinary to His Mitjesty ; 
who coniniuuicated it to the author. Although the testimony of such 
a scholar as Dr. Zouch (with whom the author had no personal ac- 
quaintance) he hig;hly flattering, yet it is hoped that the insertion of 
it may he pardoned ; as it alludes to a fact of some importance in the 
evidence concerning Alexander's Tomb; namely, the remarkable allu- 
sion made to the Soros by Juvenal (who himself visited £gt/pt), uudor 
the appellation of Sai-cophagics, 
Lord Lonsdale's Letter is as follows; it was dated 
My Dear Sir, *' Cottesniere, Jan. 1 6, 1806. 
" As Dr. Zouch's opiDion of Dr. Clarke's history of the 
Tomb of Alexander may not be unacceptable to you, I send you the 
following Extract from a Letter I received from h-m a few days ago." 
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