n. The top was outlined all around and then the vertical _ 
ting followed. On. the@nL@ditondthondtd f . the-farther-end.dis—squar-—_ 
down...t0..the.groundbut-the-Larger mass. atatheofro: ssonot-yet 
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out," large “proj-sctions..beLow-remeining to -be~removed . 
All over these surfaces “re seen the evidences of tedious labor; 
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here a workman had pecked away until a broad shallow channel deep- 
ened to the proper plane and carried down toward the base. Next 
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this is another era of cutting and beyond another and still another 
as if many workmen had labored side by side leaving low ridges be- 
tween the areas covered by each. Though lying here open to the 
weather for more than four hundred years the pick marks are clearly 
viatble and even the direction of the stroke and the width and 
nature of the blunt point of the pick can he observed. 
Turning from this most interesting and hid Deol illus- 
tration of the nature of the work done by the ancient stone cutters 
I sought traces of the tools employed and was repaid by numerous 
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finds. Scattered all around were battered stones , rttined picks, 
me ae opoded the Py Poe cae Spans HtCt ta) Ca? g ~ er CW tems, and hammer — 
