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He equip'd a fleet of 400. Ships with Which he master'd all the Islands in the Red Sea, & the Towns on the Coast of it; He himself conquer'd Asia, & advanc'd farther in India than ever Alexander did, in short his dominions extended from the Danube to the Ganges but what is very remarkable after having during put the space of Nine Years made all these Conquests, He retir'd to Ægypt, & we have no traces that He kept any kind of dominion over deletion unclear /deletion addition ^^ his Conquests /addition, except the Neighbouring provinces to Ægypt; He then gave his whole attention to the improving his dominions by building towns, making Canals for the ecouragement of Commerce, & when grown blind from Age He destory'd himself;

There is so little either of information or amusement among the list of His Successors that I shall only remark that Tharaca was the last Æthiopian King that Reign'd in Ægypt; for as they could not agree on a Successor, Anarchy prevail'd above two Years when twelve of the principal Nobility divided the Kingdom into twelve lesser ones, each was sole director in his part, but they were ever to remain ally'd together, & after having liv'd fifteen Years in the greatest Harmony they built the famous labyrinth as a memorial of their uncommon concord; what destroy'd