VII. 
840 ALEXANDRIA. 
CHAP, thereby demonstrably the tomb of some person 
deified by the Egi/ptiaiu, as Alexander incontest- 
ably was, after his interment '. 
In the evening of the same day, about five 
o'clock, we waited upon Monsieur Le Roy, 
Ordonnateur de la Marine, in consequence of 
receiving, by Menous Aid-de-camp, an order 
from the French General to see the other antiqui- 
ties which their army had collected to send to 
France, and which they had been compelled to 
surrender. This gentleman treated us with 
great politeness, and conducted us to some 
magazines near the old port : here many of the 
relics were then deposited which are now in 
our national Museum. A Soros, brought from 
Grand Cairo, was upon the beach near those 
magazines, together with part of another from 
Upper Egypt, ready to be shipped off, as soon as 
(0 See Lucian, vol. I. p. 290. edit. Amstehd. Blaeu. Marcus 
Aurclius Alexander Severus was born in a temple sacred to Alexander 
the Grcftt, and thence received the name of Alexander. See also the 
various proofs o{ Alexander's deification adduced in the Tomh of Alex- 
under, Camb. 1805 ; and the additional evidence of the fact, as pub- 
lished by Dr. Henley, in tlie Appendix to that work. — " ''ETuV/t 'A?.e^- 
a»oj«; /j«uXsra/ ho; uta., igrca his- Quandofpiidem Alexander vult esse 
Deus, esto Deus." ZElian. lib. ii. far. Hist. cap. 19. — See also 
Vossius, de Cultu Alexandri Alagni, torn. II. cap. 17. p- 802. Amst. 
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