MODERN LIGHTHOUSE OF ALEXANDRIA.
Nor, continues Montfaucon, are we more disposed to credit the story told by Martinus Crusius, in his Turco-Græciæ, book viii.—on the authority of the Arabs—that Alexander the Great fixed on the summit of the tower a mirror so skilfully made that it revealed the approach of hostile fleets at a distance of one hundred leagues, and that after the Macedonian hero’s death it was broken by a Greek, named Sodores, while the guardians of the lighthouse slept. But, unfortunately for this romantic fiction, the pharos was not built until after the time of Alexander the Great.
CHAPTER III.
THE “TOUR D’ORDRE” OF BOULOGNE.
