6 Alexander's 
eame a memorable inftance of the mutabi- 
lity of human grandeur: or, that in the 
words of Lucan (x. 46.) 
< cecidic Babylone fua.”” 
As a motto this quotation certainly 
might have advantage ; but if the firuc- 
tore of the memoir referred to by your 
Correfpondent, refts on folid facts, it wil 
derive neither fupport or authority from. 
the lines adduced. Since, in the words of 
ancient wildom, ‘* Good wine needs no 
bufh.”” 
However, fir, I will here folemnly and 
unequivocally declare, that I never faw 
either Mr. Clarke or his memoir; that I 
knew nothing of its publication, and that 
the jitle difquifition inferted in your Maga- 
zine, for February was the {cle produce of 
my own perfonal inquirics. And leit 
Davus fhould fill doubr, I take the li- 
beriy of copying the few illuttrations I 
have fince met with: Jeaving your learn- 
ed Correfpondent to fay whetner he yet 
deems me a conjurer. i 
Benjamin de Tudela, the Jewifh rabbi, 
mentioned by another Correfpondeat in 
your Magazine, for March, was a writer 
I had overlooked. The only copy of 
his travels I have by me, is in French 5. 
and his words are thefe: ‘* Sur le bord 
dela mer, il y a un tombeau ce Marbre, 
ou font gravez toutes fortes d’oileaux et 
toutes fortes des animaux /e lout avec des 
infcriptions anciennes que perfonne ne con- 
nvit. On croit avec quelque vraifemblance 
gue c’eft d’um ancien Roi avant le deluge. 
La longeur ce ce fepulchre eit de 15 
Emoans, & la Jargeur de fix.” 
Leo, the African, certainly acknow- 
ledges that the fepulchre of Alexander 
was at his day in exiftence, but he exprefl- 
ly mentions it among the ruins of the az- 
cient city, waile the cheft, in queftion, was 
prefervcd, as I have before noticed, with- 
Had Leo been more par- 
our the walis. 
ticular than in the following quotation, 
the queflion might have been placed be- 
yond diiputc, fince when 4e was at Alex- 
andria the tomb muft have been a well- 
known objcét, as it was contiantly refurted 
to by pilgrims. 
‘© Neque preter mittendum videtur, in 
medio Alcxandriz ruderum, cediculam 
inflar facelli canftrufam adhue tuperefle, 
infigni fepulchro, magoo a Machumeianis 
honore affecto memorabdilem, quo Alex- 
andri magni corpus fummi prophete ac 
regis, velut in Alcazano legunt, affervari 
contendunt. Concurrit aviem ingens ed 
peregrinorum vulgus a longinquis etiam 
regionibus, colendi ac reverendi fepulchri 
[Auguft §, 
gratia, cui quoque magnas frequenter lar- 
giuntur Eleemofynas.” 
But in the edumeration of claffical au- 
thorities I forgot to introduce the account 
which Lucan has prefe:ved in the Thar- 
falia (x. 14.) of Ceefar’s vifit ro the tomb, 
immediately after his arrival in Egypt. 
——‘* Tunc vuitu femper celante timorem, 
Iintrepidus fupertim fedes, & tempia vetufti 
Numinis, antiguas Macetim teitantia vires, 
Circuit; & nulla captus dulcedine rerum, 
Non auro, cultuque deum, non mzenibus urbisy 
Effoffum tumulis cupide defcendit in antrum. 
lic Pellai proles vefana Philippi, 
Felix prado jacet: terrarum vindice fato 
Raptus. Sacratis totum fpargenda per orbem, 
Membra viri pofuere adytis : fortuna pepercit 
Manibus, et regni duravit ad ultima fatum. 
Nam, fibilibertas umquam 4 redderet orbem, 
Ludiorio fervatus erat, non utile mundo 
Editus exemplum, terras tot pofle fub uno 
Effe viro.— 
Wifely howe’er he hid hisfecret fear, 
And held his way, with well diffembled 
chear. 
Carelefs, he runs their gods and temples 
o'er 
The monuments of Macedonian Pow’r ; 
Buc neither god, nor fhrine, nor myfticritey 
Their city, nor her walls, his foul delight. 
Their caves beneath his fancy chiefly led, 
To fearch the gloomy mantions of the dead 5 
Thither with fecret pleafure he defcends,. 
And to the guide’s recording tale attends. 
‘© There the vain youth who made the 
world his prize, 
That profp’rous robber, ALEXANDER, lies. 
When pitying death, at length, had freed 
mankind, 
To facred reft his bones were here confign’d: 
His bones that better had been tofs’d and . 
hurl’d, ) 
With juft contempt around the injut’d world, 
‘* But fortune f{par’d the dead, and partial 
fate 
For ages fix’d his Pharian empire’s date. 
If e’er our long lof liberty return, 
That carcaie is referv’d for public fcorns 
Now it remains a monument confeft, 
How one proud man cou’d lord it o’er the 
. Sele. Rowe. 
Nor among the teftimonies of moderz 
travellers, which were overlooked before, 
muft I forget to mention thofe of Van 
Egmont and Heyman, and the well known 
Mr..Irwin. 
From the Travels of the two former 
gentlemen I have made the following ex- 
tract: ** We alfo went into one of the 
towers on the city wall, where we found 
feveral chambers {till entire, and probably 
ferved as barracks for the foldiers. Here 
is alfo a large ftru€ture, faid to have ftill 
Tomb. 
- 
within it ftately piazzas of Corinthian 
pillas 5 
