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• #? On Easter Monday We Left Our House,...
< _Je _, u ] b _# in accordance with the _wishes of the two young people > married Juba and'Selena . Augustus gave them Egypt as a
_kingdom , and afterwards gave them in exchange Mauritania . Juba and _§ e _| ena took possession of their new kingdom , and established Tol ,
_$ ie old Carthaginian name for . the same spot as Cherehelle , for their capital . Qut of gratitude to the CaesarsJuba changed the
: name of Tol to Julia Cesarea . He went to Rome , and to Athens for skilful workmen and famous architects , and soon raised a
magnificent capital , rich with temples to the gods , baths floored with _feeautifiil mosaics , amphitheatres , arches of triumph , and other
huge , solid buildings , which _earthquakes , Vandals of the north , _religious fury , generations of robbers , and all other destroying
_agents have not been able , to efface . There stand , within a limit of ten miles of circumferencemasses and masses of ruins . The
, foundation of a house cannot be dug without coming upon _something which belonged to the city of Cleopatra ' s daughter . In the
museum there , and at Algiers , and in the Louvre at Paris , are many of the statues , urns , sarcophagi , votive tablets , & c , found
there , but more than , all these put together , must be the number ( Q dug _overnment up and . sold by private people : without the . ¦ knowledge of the
I did not see , among these remains , any of great beauty ,, or _greo , t _artistic value ; thisit seems to meis what one would expect .
After all > money can , never buy for the , colonies the best art ; and , as ; it is now in America and Australia , so it was in Mauritania .
J . _ulba might be , and was , rich enough to pay well ; but no money would induce the best artists to leave Athens or Rome to go to
Africa . : . In the Museum ? we saw part of an Egyptian figure , one of the
usual sitting figures , of hard , black , sonorous granite ,, which we imagine Selena Cleopatraout of love to her old countryand her
recent kingdom , Egypt , broug , ht with her when she came , from thence to Mauritania . It is quite evident Juba and his wife loved
Egypt , and held its remembrance dear . Rome they recollected with _gratitudebut Egypt with love . Juba wrote about the sources of
the : Nile , , and had money struck in his new country , with the crocodile , the palm , and the name of Cleopatra on the coins , just as if
the money had been coined in the mint at Alexandria . They gave the name of Ptolemy to their eldest sonand thus sought to revive
the dynasty of Soter . These connexions , with Egypt interested us _^ ery much , and led us to explain the famous tomb , half Egyptian
. and half Roman , which we have _described . It appears the coast of Africa has been described before this time quite accurately by
Roman authors , and no mention made of this monument ; very particular mention of it is made by Pozaponius Mela . This _^ is
very strong evidence ; and , it is natural to suppose that , following , the example of the Ptolemies , who had built at Alexandria and its
_^ eig _hbqurhood many tombs , destined to ; replace ; for them and their
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Feb. 2, 1863, page 414, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_02021863/page/54/
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