Ohfer vat ions in Egypt. 41^ 



Dtodorus' inftrudls us, that Sefoflr'is eredled two Ohelish ?it'n''' obciisk 

 Heliopolis , which were an hundred and twenty Cubits highj"•^»^// h 

 and eight broad. We learn alfo from Tl'tny\ that Sochis and ''*^''' 

 Ramifes eretled each of them four ; whereof thofe of Sochis 

 were forty eight, and thofe oi Ramifes, forty Cubits only in 

 Height. The Breadth of the loweft Part of This, I am fpeak- 

 ing of, is fix Foot, and the whole Height, according as I mea- 

 fured it by the Proportion of Shadows, was no more than fixty 

 four ; though other Travellers have found it upwards of feventy. 

 Provided then we could know, which of the above-mentioned 

 Pillars This remaining one iliould be, together with the exaot 

 Height of it, we might thereby compute the Quantity of Mud, 

 that hath been left upon the adjacent Sod, fmce the Time it 

 was erected. Now thofe that were raifed by 86ββή$ , are 

 vaftly too high, as thofe οι Ramifes are too low, to make any 

 Pretenfions to it. For with Regard to the former, even grant- 

 ing the Pillar, 1 am defcribing, to be feventy Foot high, yet ftill 

 as the much greater Part of it muft remain under Ground, 

 This will exceed, by far, anyAcceffion of Mud or Ruins, that 

 could polTibly have been accumulated, in the Time, above the 

 Foundation of it. Ramifes'sOhelisks, being only forty Cubits 

 (1. e. fixty Foot) high, are even ihorter than This is found to be 

 by Obfervation. In all probability therefore. This, which 1 am 

 defcribing, muft be the furviving Obelisk of thofe that were 

 ereded by Sochis, whofe Height, by taking in alfo what may 

 be allowed for the Pedeftal, will anfwer in Grofs, to fuch Ac- 

 cidents and Alterations, as have happened to the Soil of Egypt 

 fince the Ereolion of it. But further Notice will be taken of 

 This in another Place. 



There is no Point in Hiftory that hath been fo often, and ^«^ Pyramids 

 at the fame Time fo variouily treated of, as That which relatesy^S/ 

 to the Tyramids of Memphis. The Antients abound with a 

 Diverfity of Accounts and Defcriptions concerning them ; whilft 

 the Moderns , after a much longer Courfe of Obfervations, 

 have yet notwithftanding rather multipUed the Difficulties, 

 than cleared them. 



I T« d tv HhiouTKhH Ziu -m< :^aentii i-mvtuav "t ΙυίξγίτιΛί, tt^-ra. τον p^fWi^Kov ιζ w μΜπ^^Λΐι•, οίίλ/β•κοι/ί 

 άν'εθίΐκί Λΐο ,ιω/ολίθοι/ί, -η μα ■7^i.^Qf ly.-m, η ο (μά®- '^χω> ii(S.Tiy. D'lod. J. I. P. 38. 2 In iupra 

 dida urbc (Solis) Sochis inllituit quatuor numeio ( Obelifcos ) quadragenuin odonum cubi- 

 torum lr,ngitudinc : Ramifes aucem is, quo regnante Uium captum eft, quadraginta cubito- 

 rum. Plin. 1. 36. cap. 8. 



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