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off Alexander Libanus. Search for him was immediately made throughout all the town and country, but he was not at all any where to be found at that time. Still he went on perpetrating wickedness in every place. He went into a house in the country, very far from any other, where he put all the people to death, and took away every thing that was convenient for him to carry off. After which, a second time, he was apprehended and condemned to die. The fatal day being come, he was taken out and accompanied to the place of execution. And when they were come within 100 yards of the place of execution, lo, the devil came flying in the likeness of a strong and terrible eagle, which snatched him upon its claws, as the people thought, and went thro’ the air with a prodigious noise, to the terror and amazement of all the beholders. Next day, he was found at the distance of 150 miles from that place. Now, by this time, his final day was fast approaching, in order to drive away sorrow, he began to drink very heartily with a number of his companions, when he began to address them in the following words; “My dear companions, I am to be seperated from you this day;
