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Excerpt from An Historical Account of the Most Celebrated Voyages, Travels, and Discoveries, Vol. 10: From the Time of Columbus, to the Present Period
This country, for many ages, was governed by its own kings, till it was conquered by the Per sians, under Cambyses. At length, Alexander, by the conquest of Persia, became master of Egypt also, who made Ptolemy, his general, its king, under whose descendants it remained till it became a Roman province.
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