This population, in fact, engaged thus in profitable industry, constituted, with the avails of their labors, the very estate for which the combatants were contending.
Seeing the subject in this light, the Egyptian sovereigns, especially Alexander and the earlier Ptolemies, made every effort in their power to promote the commercial greatness of Alexandria.

They built palaces, it is true, but they also built warehouses.
One of the most expensive and celebrated of all the edifices that they reared was the light-house which has been already alluded to.

This light-house was a lofty tower, built of white marble.

It was situated upon the island of Pharos, opposite to the city, and at some distance from it.

There was a sort of isthmus of shoals and sand-bars connecting the island with the shore.