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412 cleopatba's daughter, ste. marciana,
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• #? On Easter Monday We Left Our House,...
They obeyed , set to work to cultivate tlie plain , and long- years of felt marvellous her end crops approaching rewarded she their made labour ner . subj When ects swe this ar noble to bury Queen her
over the well where the , accursed treasures were hidand never disturb a stone of the sepulchre , appealing thus to both , their fear
and love for their future welfare . Din Marmol S ' alah says Hei that s' , determined about 1555 to , one seek of these the successors treasures of and Keir- left
ed-Algiers , with a little , army , and some Christian slaves , and , encamped himself before the tombAt the first blowof the pickaxe he was
assailed by swarms of wasps . , and every sting , was deadly . S ' alah Heishorror-struckmade haste to leave the placeand hid himself
in the , recesses of his , palace , and commanded prayers , to be offered up to appease the outraged ghost of the ancient benefactress of his
king At dom the . foot of the Tombeau de la Heine , following the tradition ,
is a lake made of the blood of the Python , who was appointed to guard the Queen ' s Tomb . This serpent was commanded to live on
_grass , but was one day tempted to eat a herd of cattle . The poor lefrihtenedprayed to Heaven to deliver them from this
peop monster , and g on the , instant a stroke of lightning killed the reptile , and the , earth there became a lake of blood , and remains a lake to
this day . . The lake Alula , it is true , is of a thick dirty colour , but not red ;
and if it is blood , it is found particularly nourishing by the thousands of wild fowl we saw on it . Until lately , wild swans
were common there . Now they are scarce , and soon all the waterbirds must decamp , as the lake is to be drained this year . We saw
the soldiers at work cutting the canal . This will so much increase the healthiness of the plain that it is not to be regretted _* as most
French improvements are . We spent so much time on the tomb , and with our interesting
Dr . V ., that our journey across the plain to Marengo _, was very nearly becoming a serious midnight ramble . We lost the road
and if some of the part . y had not galloped about and pioneered with , great sagacity and couragethe carriage and its precious
inhabitants , including Milord and , Milady C , would have been precipitated into the terrible water-courses which cut the plain up into a
number of little ravines . On the road to Cherchelle from . Marengo , we stopped to see the
great arched aqueducts- —magnificent works of Roman architectureleading our imagination by giant strides to the capital of
Mauritania , Julia Cesarea . The first , of these aqueducts has three tiers of arches , and is , we
Imagined , about 150 feet high . The one nearest Cherchelle is like the single arched aqueducts about Roman townsnot more or less
, _ihere _beautiful are only it other had arches the sea in the a back mountains ground . but the should Director suppose of
many ,
412 Cleopatba's Daughter, Ste. Marciana,
412 cleopatba ' s daughter , ste . marciana ,
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Feb. 2, 1863, page 412, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_02021863/page/52/
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