ees ZUZITUZ against Arabia, and that Nearchus and his fleet were to co-0048 97 reare di borza "At the conclusion of the entertainment, when Alexander, was returning to the palace, he was met by Medius, who had been feasting a party of the officers, and now requested the favour of the king's company to do honour to the banquet. That night and the following day were spent in festivity; when it is not extraordinary that some symptoms of fever were the consequence of the 91 to Jusinotede o excess. "The Diary commences here, and contains the following particulars: "Dæsius 18th. The king bathed, and, finding the fever upon the increase, slept at the bathinghouse.* vagy mi bogongue En „leid vow "On this day, a also, orders were issued for the land forces to be ready to march on the 22d, and the the fleet to be prepared to move on the 23d "19th. The king bathed; went from the bathi to his chamber; passed the day at dice with Medius; bathed again in the evening; attended the sacrifices in a litter; took nourishment in the B * The sleeping at the bathing-house is explained' by Arrian, who states that he was conveyed in his bed to the river side, and carried over to a garden-house on the opposite shore. bilt not easbro bouzet tud 19b1ozib ad slag to r9sifto odt bus slsq edt ni bastts 0: evening; the fever increased, and the night was passed in great perturbation. Orders were issued For the officers to attend the next morning, for "20th. The king bathed; attended the sacrifices as before; conversed, while in the bath, with Nearchus upon his voyage from India; gave him fresh orders to be ready on the 23d. 21st.The king bathed; attended the sacrifices in the morning; found no abatement of the disorder; transacted business with the officers; gave ८८ directions about t the fleet; bathed again in the evening; the fever still increased. 22d. This moved into exi€“ the apartment near the bath; attended the sacrifices, the fever now ran very high, and oppressed him very much; he, nevertheless, ordered the principal officers to attend, and , and repeated his orders in regard® to the fleet. Donegory 94 of tool ont eli of 23d. The king was conveyed to the sacrifices with great difficulty; but issued fresh orobaqushe naval officers, and conversed about ders to filling up the Vacancies in the army. 299dose edt yd 24th. The king was much more oppressed, and the fever much increased." trte odw‚asiA ~q0.925th. 92 The king was now sinking fast under the disorder, but issued orders for the hea generals to attend in the palace, and the officers of rank to be in waiting at the gate. He suffered still more towards the evening, and was conveyed back again over the river from the garden to the palace. Here he obtained a short repose; but upon his awakening, when the generals were admitted, though he retained his senses, and knew them, he had lost the power of utterance.nd fina "26th. The fever had made a rapid progress all night, and continued without abating during the day. 27th. The soldiers now clamorously de manded to be admitted, wishing to see their sovereign once more if he were alive, and suspecting that he was dead, and his death concealed. They were suffered, therefore, to pass through the apartment in single file without arms, and the king raised his head with difficulty, holding out his hand to them, but could not speak. 4 28th. In the evening the king expired." Vincent's Voyage of Nearchus, p. 481-2-3;** P. 256. 4 THE celebrated passage of Gibbon, alluded to in the text, and which, in the mind of the Geographer standing under the arch of Chosroes, must have given rise to a world of thought, is more like the fiction of an eastern tale, than the grave page of history. "But in the space of twenty-four years, Chosroes was deterred, by superstition or resentment, from approaching the gates of Ctesiphon; and his favourite residence of Artemita, or Dastajherd, was situate beyond the Tigris, about sixty miles to the north of the capital. The adjacent pastures were covered with flocks and herds : the paradise, or park, was replenished with pheasants, peacocks, ostriches, roebucks, and wild boars; and the noble game of lions and tigers, was sometimes turned loose for the bolder pleasures of the chase. Nine hundred and sixty elephants were maintained for the use and splendour of the great king. His tents and baggage were carried into the field by twelve thousand great camels, and eight thousand of a smaller size; and the royal stables were filled with six thousand mules and horses, amongst whom the names of Shebdiz and Barid, are renowned for their speed and beauty. Six thousand guards successively mounted before the palace gate. The service of the interior apartments was performed by twelve thousand slaves. The various treasures of gold, silver, gems, silks, aromatics, were deposited in an Bb hundrede subterraneous vaults andthechanis bers of Badaverd, denoted the daccidental gifts of the winds, which had waftedy the spoils of Heraclius into one of the Syrian harbours of his rival. The voice of flattery, and perhaps of fiction, is not ashamed to complete the thirty thousand rich bangings that adorned the walls, the forty thousand columns of silver,isor move probably of marble, or platedwood, that sup ported the roof, and the thousand globes of gold, suspended in the dome, oto imitate the motions of the planets, and the constellations of the Zodiac Gibbon, vol. viii. p. 225. od ysm asvorg geodw‚uolydsů to enobisy İsyor jugions bumors beriga 9500 979iled of п02697 9781 ow .OTE P. 25991 yıstiloa won tadt THIS tree, mentioned by most travellers who have visited Babylon, is thus described by Sir R. Porter. "In proceeding to the northern side of the Kasr, amongst the mouldering fragments, and elevated in a sort of ridge, stands the famous solitary tree, called by the Arabs Athelé. Its species is quite strange to this country. It bears every mark of antiquity in appearance, situation, and tradition. Its trunk has originally been enormous; but at last worn- away by time, only part of its original circumference, hollow and sitrallA 19do♬ yd Bornh¶ |