18 ON USEFUb AND OENAMENTAL STONES OP ANCIENT EGYPT. 



had at command an abundance of men and means, and these 

 they employed in quarrying and working stone for temples 

 and statues on a scale which has not since been equalled in 

 any part of the world. In more modern times there may be 

 equally great triumphs of design and mechanical execution, 

 but they run in different directions, and aim at different 

 results from those of the ancient people of Khemi, who, with 

 all their ordinary wants superabundantly supplied by the 

 fertility of their soil and their own eminent agricultural skill, 

 could afford to spend a vast amount of energy in great works 

 of art, commemorative of their lives and national achievements 

 or tributary to their religion. 



HARRISON & SONS, Printers in Ordinary to Her Majesty, St. Martin's Lane. 



