The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1854-03-09
a# For the Wyandot Pioneer.
Extracts from MIR. Dement'S Lectures.
1Continucd from last week.

this grand campaign and its results
Book 1st, part 3, Sesostris. He had fit
ted out fleet of four hundred sail, and
ordering it to advance to the Red Sea,
made himself master of the Isles, and
cities lying on the coast Of that sea. He
himself heading his andarmy, over ran
and subdued Asia with amazing rapid
ty, and advanced farther in Irdia than
Herules, Bacillus and in after times Ais
ander himself had ever done; for he sub
dued the countries beyond the Ganges,
and advanced as far as the ocean.
One may judge from hence how unable
the more neighboring countries were to
resist him. The Scyhians as far as the
river Tanaus, as well as Armenia and
Capidocia were conquered. He left
colony in the ancient kingdom of Calchos
situated, to the east of the Black Sea,
where the Egyptian customs and manners
have been ever since retained. Herod-
otis saw in Asia Minor from one sea to
the other, monuments of his VICTORIES
In several countries was read the follow
ing incription engraven on pillars.
'Sesostris, king of kings and Lord of
Lords, subdued this country by the pow
er of his arms Such pillars were found
even in Thrace, and his empire extended
from the Gangese to the Danube. In
this expedition, some nations brayely de-
Tended their liberties, and others yielded
them up without making the least resis-
tance.
This disparity was denoted by him in
hierogliphical figures, on the monuments
erected to perpetuate the remembrance of
his victims. The scarcity of provisions,
in Thrace stopped the progress of his con-
quests, and prevented his advancing far
therin Europe. One remarkable circum-
stance is observed in this conqueror, who
never once thought as others had done of
preserving his. acquisitions but contenting
himself with the glory of having subdued
and despoiled SO many nations, after hav-
ing made wild havoc up and down the
world for nine years, he confined himself
almost within the ancient limits of Egypt,
few neighboring provinces excepted, for
we do not find any traces or foot steps of
this new empire, either under himself or
his successors.
He returned, therefore, laden with the
spoils of the vanquished nations, drag
ging after him numberless multitude of
captives and covered with greater glory
than any of his predecessors; that glory
l mean which employs SO many tongues
and pens in its praise, which consists in
invading great number of provinces, in
hostile way, and is often productive of
numberless calamities. He rewarded
his officers and soldiers, with truly royal
magnifcance in proportion to their rank
and merits. He made it both his pleasure
and duty, to put the companions of his
victory in such condition, as might ena-
BILE them to enjoy, during the remainder
of their days, "a calm and easy repose;
the just reward Of theirpast tolls.
With regard to himself, forever careful
of his own reputation and still more OF
making bis power advantageous, to his
subjects he employed the repose which
peace allowed him in raising work that
might contribute more to the enriching Of
Egypt than the immortalizing his name;
works in which the art and industry oi
the workmen, were more admired than
the immense sums which had been ex-
pended on them.
A hundred famous temples raised as
so many monuments of gratitude to the
tutelar Gods of all the cities were the first
as we'll as the most illustrious testimonies
of his victories, and he took care to pub
lish in the inscriptions on them, that these
mighty works had been completed without
burthening any of his subjects. He made
it his glory to be tender to them, and to
employ only captives in these monuments
of his conquests.
But he prided himself particularly in
adorning and enriching the temple of Vul-
can at Pelusium, in acknowledgment ol
the protection, which he fancied that God
had bestowed upon him, when on his re-
turn from his expeditions, his brother had
a design of destroying him in that city
with his wife and children, by setting fire
to the apartmentwhere he then lay. His
great work was the raising in every par
of Egypt a considerable number of higf
banks or moles, on which new cities were
built in order that there might be secu
rity for men and beasts during the inun
dation of the Nile.
From Memphis as far as the sea he cu
on both sides of the river a great numbe
of canals for the convenience of trade
and the conveying of provisions and TO
the settling and easy correspondence be
tween such cities as were most distant from
one another.
Besides the advantages of trafc, Egyp