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While the alluvia brought by the marine currents were developing the isthmus of the "Heptastadium," which was further enlarged and elevated by the ruins of a city more than once destroyed and rebuilt, the other parts of the neighbouring

Fig. 133. — Abukir and Alexandria.
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seaboard appear to have undergone the opposite movement of subsidence during the same historic period. Roads, quays, old quarries, tombs excavated in the cliffs along the adjacent coast, as well as the works known by the name of "Cleopatra's Baths," are still constantly encroached upon by the marine waters, even