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his hands to the measured cadence of a song, to mark the time and 
ensure their simultaneous draught; for it is evident that in order 
that the whole power might be applied at the same instant, a sign 
of this kind was necessary: and the custom of singing at their 
work was common to every occupation in Egypt, as it is now in 
that country, and many other places: nor is it found a disadvantage 
among the modern sailors of Europe and others, when engaged in 
pulling a rope, or in any labour which requires a simultaneous 
effort.” Sir Gardner Wilkinson concludes his account of this 
interesting painting, by observing ‘‘that while small blocks of 
stone were sent from the quarries by water to their different places 
of destination, either in boats or rafts: those of very large dimen- 
sions were dragged by men overland, in the manner here repre- 
sented: and the immense weight of some shows that the Egyptians 
were well acquainted with mechanical powers, and the mode of 
applying a locomotive force with the most wonderful success.” 
But if it be thought by any that the colsssal figures alluded to 
above, would be of inferior bulk and weight to the rough stones of 
___ Avebury or Stonehenge, let me hasten to correct such an erroneous 
impression by remarking, that the statues of the Assyrians were of 
enormous size and weight, while those of the Egyptians were of 
no less dimensions. I proceed to prove this by figures; and would 
first observe that the height of the Egyptian colossus just described 
was twenty four feet,! while the bulk of the Assyrian human 
headed bull, alluded to above, was far greater: but these are as 
nothing when compared to other colossal figures which still exist, 
___ carved out of one block of stone or granite. Thus we find in the 
plain of Koorneh or Western Thebes, two colossi of Amunoph IIL, 
(date B.C. 1400)? one of which is the well-known vocal Memmon, 
each of a single block, forty seven feet in height, containing above 
11,000 cubic feet, and made of a stone not known within several 
day’s journey of the place. And not far off in the Memmonium, 
on the same plain, is another statue of Remeses II. (date B.C. 
1 Wilkinson’s Ancient Egyptians, vol. iii., p. 327. 
2 Wilkinson’s Ancient Egypt, vol. iii., p. 329. Ditto Egypt and Thebes, 
pp. 33, et seq. Ditto Handbook for Egypt, pp. 327—339. 

