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liarly associate with it; as is also the case with the celebrated 
Memnon’s head, and all the higher class of Egyptian sculpture, 
Those, therefore, who contemplate these features and form, will 
acquire far higher notions of the excellence of Egyptian art than 
hitherto has been ascribed to it. 
The classic writers of Greece and of Rome have always declared 
Egypt to be the fountain and source of knowledge. These coun- 
tries haye borrowed their rules of art, and transported their obe- 
lisks to adorn their colonnades and forums; and Rome and the 
whole world, unto our own era, have done full justice to the 
vast conceptions, the colossal and gigantic proportions of their 
temples, their statues and their obelisks, and above all, to the 
indestructible material they selected with such boldness and hardi- 
hood for their extraordinary labours, which defies all competition 
of modern skill, being of the basalts and oriental granite, hard 
and impenetrable to the edge of all modern tools. ‘To these 
genuine principles of grandeur and sublimity, developed in their 
vastness and eternal duration, this pleasing and delicately formed 
statue, as well as many of the busts and precious relicks collected 
for the last ten years from this ancient land, now lay claim also 
to the majestic and the beautiful. They differ indeed in many 
striking essentials from the celebrated statues of Greece and of 
Rome, but they combine in themselves such excellencies, as to 
render a disquisition into their first principles of composition 
very desirable; and placed as they now are in the vestibule even 
of the Elgin marbles, the works of Phidias, in the face almost of 
those forms of matchless excellence, it would be highly pleasing 
to trace how, in such a fearful collision, they still maintain their 
attraction, and by what charm they thus fascinate their beholder 
to linger around their austere and smiling forms, which appear ‘ 
breathing forth through lips all but animated, the astonishing 
and mystic secrets of their venerable forms. 
CANAL BOATS. 
The following account of Mr. T. M. Van Heythuysen’s patent 
for propelling barges or boats through canals, has been sent us 
by a correspondent. 
** The object of this invention is to substitute manual labour 
instead of equestrian in transporting barges through canals, and 
is simply thus: A tread-wheel is fixed either to the fore-, or 
both to the fore- and after-part of a barge, which is trod round. 
The axle passes through the tread-wheel and projects from the 
sides of the barge about 20 inches: to this is fixed a paddle- 
wheel similar to those used by vessels propelled by steam ; each 
of these wheels contains six paddles. Supposing the man who 
treads to weigh 135Ibs, and deduct 35 lbs. for friction, he will 
then 
