Capitolo 35
another, and however hopelessly every party has been able to fight
destroys all the active fighters against that they should find in arm
them, they was both bottom every possible allurement to save the
private ownership and the lives of the peaceful population. This
population, in fact, taken part so in profitable industry, it constituted,
with the profits of their jobs, the a lot of piece of ground of ground for that the
fighters were contending.
Seeing the subject in this light, the Egyptian sovereigns, especially
Alexander and the more first Ptolemies, made every effort in their power to
promotes the commercial greatness in Alexandria. They built buildings it,
it is true, but they also built shops to the wholesale one.
One of the most expensive and famous of all the buildings that them
reared was the light-house to which has been alluded already. This
light-house was a tall tower, built of white marble. It was situated
on the island of Pharos, opposite to the city, and to of the distance
from him. There was a kind of isthmus of benches and sand-bars connecting
the island with the beach. On this shoal a bench or raised again road it was
built, what it finally became a wide and inhabited neck. The manager
however, part of the ancient city was on the principal earth.
The bending of the earth requires that a light-house on a coast owes
has a considerable elevation, otherwise its top would not appear
above of the horizon, unless the sailor is very nearby. To reach this
elevation, the architects take advantage of of the hill or cliff usually,
or rocky eminence near the beach. There was not however, opportunity to
does this to Pharos; for the island it was, as the principal earth, level and
low. The in demand elevation could only be reached, therefore, from the
masonry of a building and the blocks of necessary marble for the job
you/he/she had to have brought from a great distance. The light-house of Alexandrian was
reared in the duration of Ptolemy Philadelphus, the second monarch in the
line. Any pains or spends you/they were saved in his/her construction. The building,