Capitolo 33
extreme and abominable wickedness seemed to hold continuous and absolute
you ripple in the buildings of the Ptolemies, and among the nobles of them
short, the ministers that work of state and the men on who the actual one
government functions devolved, it discharged their duties with wisdom and
fidelity, and in all all the lines to the agenda and gradations of
society generally prevailed there a very considerable degree of
industry, the prosperity and the happiness. This prosperity not only prevailed
in the rural districts of the Delta and along the valley of the Nile,
but also between the dealers and navigators and artisans of
Alexandria.
Alexandria became, in fact, very soon after you/he/she was founded, a very great
and busy city. A lot of things conspired to immediately to do him/it a great
commercial emporium. In the first place, it was the deposit of export for
the whole wheat surplus and the other agricultural production in which you/they were elevated
such abundance along the Egyptian valley. This production was dejected
in boats to the superior point of the Delta, where the branches of the
river uniforms, and for this motive down the branch of Canopic in the city. The city
it was not, in fact, it directly placed on this branch, but on a narrow
earth's language, to a small distance from him near the sea. It was not
effortless to directly digitize the channel, on account of the bars and
sand-banks to its mouth, produced from the eternal conflict among the
waters of the river and the surges of the sea. Water was deep,
however, as you/they had discovered the engineers of Alexander, to the place where the
city was built, and, establishing the I bring there, and cutting then a
to provide of channel * I cross to the Nile, they was trained for bringing the river and the
sea immediately in easy communication.
The production of the valley was brought so down the river and through
the channel in the city. Here shops in the wholesale immense and barns were
erect for his/her reception up to that which is probable that is preserved in safe the