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the construction of these walls and the height to 
which they were raised*. 
Goguet, in his account of the state of the arts 
among the Egyptians, conceives the stones of the - 
Pyramids, (which he dated B. C. 900,) to have 
been raised by the use of Jevers alone ;} and he 
gives a drawing of the manner in which he con- 
siders it to have been executed{. His views, are, 
however, liable to two objections. Herodotus§ 
expressly states the instruments employed to have 
been composed of ‘‘short pieces of wood,” whereas 
the levers represented by Gogwet are at least 50 
feet long, and must have been so, in order to gain 
a sufficient purchase. Further, it is difficult to 
conceive how any wooden levers could have been of 
sufficient strength to raise stones of such a weight, 
(27 tons), without being so enormous and un- 
wieldy as to surpass the skill of any number of 
men to manage them; and if they were of iron, 
ft. ft. * ° 
* Thus we find stones at Tyrins... 103 x H x 3 = 10 
Mycene.15 x4 x 63 = 27 
Alatri ... 12 x 5 x 64 = 
Norba... 10 x 44x%3 = 9 
Pyramia. 30 x 4 x3 = 25 
N.B.—The Architrave of the Propyleum at Athens is 22 
feet long. 
fii. p. 58. 
t Drawing xiv. 
§ ii. 125. 
