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THE HISTORY OF ALEXANDER THE GREAT.
[from the city], and the waves carried it into the
great sea. Then he made good water and good
[p. 286] food to be brought, and he caused the river
of Ethiopia to flow above the [city] which he had
founded, that the people might drink thereof; and
Alexandria he had choicc stone brought, and he laid foundations
above the stream and built a strong wall [about
them]. And it came to pass that he paid gold
as wages to every man who worked for him, for
Alexander was a God-fearing man, and to every
man that wrought he gave a golden dinar each
day. Thus he finished the miraculous founding of
the city, and he called it Alexandria after his
own name, and his name and his renown abide
there until this day.
CHAPTER VHI.
Alexander Aud it Came to pass that Alexander heard the
toTe ^tory of the Country Co of the Living, and he prayed
untry
of the long and continually unto God Almighty that he
might go there and dip himself in the water of
life, and see it. And a herald went round about
and proclaimed that Alexander would only take
[with him] any grown person who had a beard,
and that no person whose beard had not grown
should come, lest fear should seize upon him while
they were traversing the Country of Darkness,
which resteth like a canopy above the waters
The place of of the sea and reacheth up to heaven on the east
sunlit
'""and on the west. And the sun cometh forth from
that canopy of darkness, and it riseth and goeth