Download or read book An Historical Account of the Most Celebrated Voyages, Travels, and Discoveries, Vol. 10 written by William Fordyce Mavor and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-05-23 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.