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century, there are several enormous stones, the largest of which 
measures 40 feet by 10 feet by at least 5 feet, and must weigh 
more than 160 tons. 
_A picture painted in the eighteenth century, which I have seen, 
represents the transport of one of these stones. In it the stone is 
represented resting on a low frame of massive timbers fitted with 
rude solid wheels of wood. This is being hauled by a vast number 
of men by means of huge cables to which numerous small ropes 
8 we attached. 
In other cases a number of rollers were substituted for the 
: wheels, and this method I have seen in operation. 
_ The block is placed on the frame by first raising it to the 
required height by the application of long wooden levers to either 
end alternately, and packing it up with timber as it is being 
raised. The frame is then slipped under it and the packing 
re moved. 
The illustration of the transport of a colossus, which was dis- 
covered on the wall of a tomb of the twelfth dynasty at: El Bersheh 
(figured in memoir III. of the Archzeological Survey of Egypt, H/ 
Bei sheh, pt. i.. pl. xv.), is especially worthy of note here, as it 
shows that a precisely similar method, but without the use of 
heels or rollers for the frame, was practised in Egypt. 
Another method, which is illustrated in Fig. 12,1 may be seen 
| use everywhere in Japan and in China for carrying about stones 
1 imber of much greater weight than the bluestones. In some 
the hill districts in India stones of 20 tons weight are thus 
The huge block which is the pedestal of a tombstone is 
with a central hole so that a strong beam of timber passed 
h it is all that is required for the attachment of the bearing 
rally, however, several horizontal beams are lashed to the 
and to these, at intervals of about two or three feet, transverse 
are fastened, of sufficient length to accommodate the shoulders 
from two to three or more men at each side in the manner shown 
1 the picture. The men keep time by shouting simultaneously at 
1 Kit no Kuni Meisho Zu-e, 1851, iv. 
