Though differently shaped, they do not differ very greatly in actual area from those of Priene.

They are somewhat smaller, but only by about 60 sq.yds.in each average-sized plot.[26] [26] Wiegand, _Abhandlungen der Berliner Akademie_, 1911, Anhang; _Archaeol.

Anzeiger_, 1911, 420 foll.
[Illustration: FIG.9.MILETUS, AS EXCAVATED BY WIEGAND.
(_Archaologischer Anzeiger_, 1911, p.

421.)] _Alexandria_.
A yet more famous town, founded by Alexander himself, is definitely recorded by ancient writers to have been laid out in the same quasi-chess-board fashion, with one long highway, the Canopic Street, running through it from end to end for something like four miles.[27] Unfortunately the details of the plan are not known with any certainty.

Excavations were conducted at the instigation of Napoleon III in 1866 by an Arab archaeologist, Mahmud Bey el Fallaki, and, according to him, showed a regular and rectangular scheme in which seven streets ran east and west while thirteen ran north and south at right angles to them.