house raised by other nations; its erection is said to have cost £150,000 sterling. 
The description of Alexandria left to us by Strabo enables the modern traveller to 
understand the relative features of the ancient city; but his recollection of the destruc¬ 
tion of its libraries and museum will excite bitter feelings as he traverses the spots 
on which these noble institutions existed. 
The stupendous efforts made by Mehemet Ali to restore the importance of the 
port, have, in many instances, been accomplished at the cost of many thousands of 
the lives of the poor creatures, who are forced by him to labour in the public 
works of Alexandria. Under him, nearly the whole of the present city,— its forts, 
arsenal, and dock-yards, its magnificent palace, and great square,— have been raised 
and built, where, only a few years since, a desert existed. His fine fleet rides in 
the port; the principal ship in the view, a first-rate man-of-war, is that of the 
Egyptian admiral bearing the flag of the Pasha,— a silver crescent and star on a red 
ground; and the khanja, being rowed across the harbour, is that of Mehemet Ali. 
THE GATE OF THE METWALIS, OR BAB ZUWEYLEH, 
CAIRO. 
This gate is not situated in the wall of the city which surrounds Cairo, but is one 
of those within it, which serve to communicate between one part of the city and 
another, and are so placed that they divide Cairo into quarters, or districts, and thus 
furnish to the Pasha a means of cutting off from the rest any division which may be in a 
state of insurrection. The gate leads between the two beautiful minarets of a mosque, 
the subject of another drawing in this work. 
The great line of streets which leads from the citadel to the Bab en Nasr lies 
through the Metwalis gate, and the great caravan of the Mecca pilgrims passes 
beneath it to leave the city by the Gate of Victory. 
Roberts’s Notes. 
