RUINS OF TELMESSUS. Sll 
when the relics of the dead became sources f"HAP. 
of superstition, and sloth or avarice had ren- 
dered them subservient to mercenary purposes, 
it was necessary that inscriptions should often 
not only record the origin of the tomb, but also 
testify the miracles it wrought, or the mysteries 
it concealed. Hence those numberless writinsfs 
at the monument of Memnon, and the long- 
catalogue of hieroglyphic characters with which 
the priests of Alexandria had inscribed the 
Soros containing the consecrated remains of the 
Founder of their city. It is quite inconceivable 
by what art the people of Telmessus were 
enabled to raise such everlasting monuments 
of their piety for the dead. The Soros now 
described, stands upon the top of a rock, 
towering among the ruins and other sepulchres 
of the city : it consists, like the former, of two 
pieces of stone ; and its foundation is upon a 
mass so solid, that even the earthquakes, to 
which the country has been liable, have not, in 
the smallest degree, altered its original position. 
the perpetuity of their memory by the greatness of their sepulchres. 
EA2IAETCBA2IAE.aN0CTMANAXACEOIIEIAETICEIAEXAI 
BOTAETAinHAIKOCELAIIKAinOTKEIMAIXIKATnTITXlNE 
MflNEPrflN. " I am Osi/mandyus, King of Kings ! Jf any one 
would know how g^reat I am, and where I lie, let him surpass any 
of my works." Ulysses, in the Hecuba of Euripides, expresses his 
infliflcrcnce as to the manner in which he lives, provided only that he 
be allowed a magnificent Tomb after his death. 
