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piles of balls, laid on the ground in our arfenals, which imper- 

 ceptibly fink in the courfe of a few years, unlefs fupported by 

 ftrong platforms. 



As to the reft of the ftatue of Mtmnon, the following are the 

 dimenfions given by Pocock. 



Feet. In. 

 From the fole of the foot to the ankle-bone — a 6 



From ditto to the inftep — 4 o 



From ditto up to the top of the knee — 190 



The foot is 5 feet broad, and the leg 4 feet thick. 



Pocock apparently refers thefe meafiirements to the Englifh 

 flandard, which reduces them nearly by the eleventh part. He 

 found, befides, on the pedeftal, the legs and the feet of the ftatue, 

 feveral infcriptions in unknown charaélers ; others of great an- 

 tiquity, Greek and Latin, very indifferently engraved, which aie 

 the atteftations of the perfons who had heard the found which it 

 emitted. 



The remains of the Memmnium prefcnt all around, to a very 

 great diftance, ruins of an immenfe and uncouth architecture, 

 excavations in the fplid rock, which form part of a temple, pro- 

 digious fragments of walls tumbled down, and reduced to rub- 

 bi(h, and others ftanding ; a pyramidical gate, avenues, fquare 

 pillars, furmounted by ftatues with the head broken off, holding 

 in one hand a iitufit, and a whip in the other, as that of OJiris. 

 At a ftill greater diftance, fragments of gigantic figures fcattered 

 along the ground, heads of fix feet diameter, and 1 1 feet in 

 length, flioulders 2 1 feet broad, hxunan ears three feet long and 

 16 inches broad; other figures which feem to iffue out pf the 

 earth, of which the Phrygian bonnets only are to be feen. All 

 thefe gigantic productions are made of the mpft precious mate- 

 rials, of black and white marble, of marble entirely black, of 

 marble with red fpots, of black granite, of yellow granite ; and 

 they aie, for the moft part, loaded with hieroglyphics. What 

 fentiments of refpeft and admiration muft have been produced 

 in the minds of thofe fuperftitious people, by fuch enormous and 

 fpyfterious fabrics, efpecially, when in, their lolemnly filent 



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