NOTICE TO CORRESPONDENTS.
F.N.F.—The .Alexandrian library, was foundeda i by..Ptdlemceus, King of Egypt, in, 284, ,B._fc< ! aha, according to Gibbon, the historian, ,wa a -, i tdtelly destroyed in the siege of "Alexandria-. by JnlinaCessar about 200 years after. , Othe;----t authorities .afiirm that, the library was tonlig i partly destroyed, a The library was re-estab y, fished by Marcus Antdniusthrough, Cleopatra", t and; continued to flourish until the City wa's S cohguered, by-the, Arabs, A.D., 640, when is.'. ', was burnt in of -the fanaticat j decision of the Cahph Omar. , ■~-■■. a,.a:
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Auckland Star, Volume IX, Issue 2604, 12 August 1878, Page 2
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