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part of it had been repaired in his time. He reprefents it under 

 the form of a young man fitting, with his eyes turned toward the 

 rifing Sun. It was of a black-coloured ftone. Both feet were 

 in a line, as was the cafe with all the ancient ftatues, up to the 

 time of Dednlus, who was the firft, it is faid, that made the li:a- 

 tues to advance, the one before the other. It's liands refted on 

 the thighs, as if he were goiîig to rife. 



On looking at the eyes and mouth, you would have thought it 

 was going to fpeak. Philojîratus^ and his travelling companions, 

 were not furprized at the attitude of this flatue, becaufe they 

 were ignorant of it's vii tue: but when the- rays of the rifing 

 Sun firft darted on it's head, they no fooner reached the mouth, 

 than it did actually fpeak, which appeared to them a prodigy. 



Here is, accordingly, a feries of grave Authors, from Strctbo^ 

 who lived under Augujîus, down to Philo/lrafus, who lived under 

 the reigns of Caracalla and Geta^ that is, during a period of two 

 hundred years, who affirm, that the ftatue of Memnoji emitted a 

 found at the rifing of Aurora. 



As to Richmd Pocock, who faw only the half of it in 1738, he 

 found it in the fame ftate that i'/m/^o had feen it, about 1738 

 years before, except that it emitted no found. He fays it is of a~ 

 particular fort of granite, hard and porous, fuch as he had never 

 feen before, and which a good deal refembles the eagle-ftone» 

 At the dilknce of thirty feet from, it, to the North, there is, as 

 in the time of ^'/rrt^o, another coloflal flatue entire, built of five 

 layers of ftones, the pedeftal of which is 30 feet long, and 17 

 broad. But the pedeftal of the mutilated ftatue, which is that of 

 Memmn, is 33 feet long by 19 broad. It confifts of a fingle piece, 

 though cleft about 10 feet behind the back of the ftatue. Pocock 

 fays nothing of the height of thefe pedeftals, undoubtedly, becaufe 

 rhcy are encumbered with faiid ; or, rather, becaufe the perpe- 

 tual and infenfible aflion of gravity muft have made them fink 

 into the Earth, as may be remarked of all the ancient monu- 

 ments vvhirh are not founded on the folid rork. This effeft is 

 obf rvable, in like manner, \\x the cafe of heavy cannon, and 



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