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eminence both at home and abroad ; who have 
approved his testimony, and have aided and 
encouraged him in making it public. It is upon 
the evidence alone that this question can be 
decided ; and this is so simple, and so conclu- 
sive, that it is open to every apprehension. It 
, merely amounts to this: Whether the Cistern 
held sacred by the Arabs as the conditoi-y of 
Alexander, be, or be not, the sort of receptacle 
which Historians teach us to believe did con- 
tain his body. Any one who had read even 
such a compilation as ' Purchas his Pilgrimsy 
and had therein found it stated, probably from 
Leo Africanus, that in Alexandria there *' yet 
remaineth a little Chappell, luherein they say that 
the high Prophet, and King Alexander the Great lies 
buried," would surely have been curious to 
inquire what was really exhibited by the Arabs 
as the Tomb of the founder of their city : and if, 
during its examination, this turn out to be 
* I have been much gratified with reading a history of the Tomb 
of Alexander by Dr. C/arke, of Jestts College, Cambridge. Indeed, 
I scarcely laid dowu the volume until I had gone through it. 
He seems to have proved his point; at least to have rendered it highly 
probable, that the precious monument deposited in the British 
Museum is what he thinks it to he. I cannot but believe that Juvenal 
expressly alludes to this splendid Tomb, in which the remains of the 
Macedonian Hero were interred : 
' Cum tamen a figulis munitam intraveril mliera 
Sfi) cop.'iag-o contentiis erit.' 
