Springs And Wells in Greek And Roman Literature Their Legends And Locations
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The collection was injured during Caesar's besiegement EGYPT 465 in 47 B. C. , and again in 273 a. D. , and in 389: it was totally destroyed by the Arabs in 640, and learning then sus- tained an irreparable loss in every department. In the ashes of the conflagration lie all that is left to the world of peoples of whom nothing can now be known; and science and the arts sorrow with history in their own bereavements, for the loss of the records of the experience, the discoveries, the formulas, and... the secrets, in chemis- try, mechanics and other lines, that had accumulated during innumerable centuries has caused other centuries of extra labor and research, much of which is still without result; work that would have produced something new if it had not perforce been diverted to finding out some- thing that was old thousands of years ago, such, among hundreds of instances, as the process for producing un- fading paints, and for making malleable glass. The limpid Springs that served a ship's crew amply were utterly unable to meet the demands of a growing city, and an aqueduct was therefore built and conveyed water from the Nile to Pharos and all other parts of Alexandria.
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