The Fairfield herald. [volume] (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1849-1876, 1871-05-17
The Lost Arts.
A LECTURE.
BY WENDELL PHILLIPS :
OTHER FACTS AND INVENTIONS.

arts. Take for instance, the motion
of heavy bodies across the Garth. I
. won't stop at the common powers, the
five mechauicaE pow crs, because every
! body knows we have never added
any thing to them. We hay never ad.
ded fourth to the mechanismsnce the
ages before history began. But take
the application Of force for the mo-
tion Of heavy bodies. The other DAY
we moved the Pelham Hotel, weigh
ing Gve-thousand tons, fourteen feet,
and We rushed into print about it..
We have moved, since then, a block
Weighing eight thousand tons sixteen
feet. Russia, some years ago, moved
block of granite weighing Il
thousand tons fifty-seven miles, and
they wrote a book about it. Herodo-
tus says that he saw temple carved
out of stone hat weighed five thou
sand tons, and it had been moved $50
miles. If that is true, all We have
got to do is to sit down. Take the
temples at Caruac, where the columns
arc sixty feet high. Who hung the
huge architrave sixty feet in the air 7
Take the pyramids. The upper tiers
Of stones are very heavy. Who rails
cd them six huLd cl feet in hight 7
Patterson of Hartford, the head Of the
house that makes funeral monuments
for all the north, when travelling in
Egypt III. t Brul 0 the Y hitott of tbs
Thames tunnel and as they walked
along the streets of Alexandria, Mr..
Patterson said, "Do you believe in the
sturics Of Egyptian engineering.
Brunei pointed to pompey's pillar,
one hundred feet high, whose capital
weighs two hundred tons, and said :,
"Sir, there is not Il school of mou
living that can lift two hundred tons
one hundred feet in the air." And
they are the men to discuss Egyptian
eng iueering.
Well, then, take ventilation--,his
is modern nrt. You know the
pyramids have either Que room or two.
Some men think they were IL treasure
house some think they were tombs.
At any rate, there is an opening in
the ceiling Of the interior room, and
in the upper tier Of the pyramids are
two openings. For long time they
were never noticed. Within forty
years, John Bull, that ought to
have been Yankee, took cat and
carried her to the top of the pyramids
and locked up her kittens in the room
below. In the morning, cat and kit
tens we're found together, proving
that these three openings had COM
munication and these ignorant sava-
ges actually ventilated their tombs,
while this enlightened and painfully
modest nine eAnth century ha n t,en-
tilated its dwelling-houses yet. Gap
plause.)
Well, did they have canals 7
Europe says, 81 invented canals six
hundred years ago." China says, 81
have had them thousand years. -
"Well," says Egypt, "that don't
amount to much, I have had them
four thousand years" And, if you
will 60 to that valley of Goshen where
we thought tho Jews lived, you will
find canal which quarter of q mil
lion dollars would put into working,
oider, canal which Moses saw. It is
forty miles long, one hundred and
forty wide, and thirty seven feet deep.
/, Diodorus says that by sluices and
gates, ingeniously contrived and
quickly opened and shut again, they
went from level to level ; so that they
had locks as we'll as canals Indeed,
1t is by no means certain that Egypt
won't havo right to laugh at US out
of her grave. This Suez canal just
8nishod, fills up with sand, so that
they are const antly obliged to drcdgc
it. Egypt built c"nal at right angles
three thousand years ago, full half as
large as ours, and it is by no means
certain, and begins to be smpcotcd
that We had better have initiated
Egypt and spout one terth Of our
money and run canal cast and west
instead of north and south and mil.
lions have been thrown away because
wo did not initiate Egypt.
Did they have Railroads 2 Yes,
they had railroads. Our fathers left
railroads in England when they came
to Plymouth. They were nine hundred
years old in Europe. There are onl y
two principles in a railroad. Ono ~
an artificial level, and Egypt produce
ed that by putting square blocks Of
granite successfully in the Garth.
There is one other principlo-sup-
port for the wheels. We support
ours on rail they support theirs in
a groove, laying stones in parallel
lines, for the wheels to move iu tho
grooves. There is the railroad the
only wonder is the locomotive.
Herodotus says they had great rollcrs
mado to convey by machinery blocks
Of granite. from, the quarries down to
tho sea. Now, what was the machinery?
I shall in that hide behind Asago. and
Arago aud Humboldt stand aide by
side in siepce Arago maintained be