Note 66 — Chapter I
Walter Armstrong translation
Ker Porter, Travels in Georgia, Persia, etc., 4to., vol. ii. p. 390. Layard, Discoveries in the Ruins of Nineveh and Babylon, p. 535. "Alexander, after he had transferred the seat of his empire to the east, so fully understood the importance of these great works that he ordered them to be cleansed and repaired and superintended the work in person, steering his boat with his own hands through the channels."