ALEXANDRIA. 
in the city, not a single individual of our army 
or navy, nor even in Great Britain, knew that 
the monument at vAixoh Leo Africanus had himself 
done homage, as a Mahommedan, and which had 
so long been venerated by Moslems under the 
remarkable appellation of the Tomb of Alex- 
ander, existed in Alexandria". 
We then visited the person to whom our 
letter from Cairo had been addressed, respect- 
ing the communication to be made upon our 
arrival; and found that every information had 
been anticipated by the intelligence we had 
already received, excepting that which related 
to the place where this valuable relic was 
now deposited. This, however, they readily 
gave us. We were told that it was in the hold 
of an hospital ship, named La Cause, in the 
inner harbour ; and being provided with a boat, 
we there found it, half filled with filth, and 
covered with rags of the sick people on board *. 
(4) This is evident, from the total silence respecting' it in all the 
works published concerning Egypt since the campaign ; neither was 
there any thing known concerning the history of this monument after 
it was deposited in the British Museum, until the period of the 
author's publication upon the subject in 1805. 
(5) Mr. Hamilton afterwards saw it in the same situation. " We 
were conducted," says he, " alongside of a large hospital ship, on 
board of which was the celebrated /Alexandrian Sarcc^hn^uf • it had 
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