Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1875-07-10

GUILDHALL- VI, July TO- 1879.
Tn. great works of ART and most of
the moments Of men have persisted,
and like him and the nations that have
lived, but few traces are found.
"What is has been, what has been
shall be-" There Is one monument
in particular that has stood through
the wreck of the ages and is destined
TO stand, perhaps as long as the world
stands-that is the great pyramid of
Egypt. 1t teaches us the fact that
the ancients in that comparatively
early stage of the world had knowl-
edge of mechanical forces unknown
to the world to-day. We may boast
of our intelligence in the discovery
and application of the laws of nature
for the benefit of the world, yet a
voice comes from the mummies of
Egypt defying the world in its
boastcd progress to- build another
like the great pyramid. It's doubted
if there is skill enough in the world
to even cut such immense blocks of
stone from any quarry, and much less
TO move stones that are tens Of feet
square-and more than ten times ten
feet long-and then to think Of rails
ing them from two TO five hundred
feet in the air is beyond the engineer
ing knowledge of today. The great
pyramid stands on the east side of the
river Nile, in what was known among
ancient historians as Middle Egypt
and Immediately opposite where
Memphis, its capital, stood.
The foundation is as solid as thu
mountains, or as rock can make it
and covers nearly fourteen acres o
gro-nd. From the outline of its bas'
1t reads, so to speak, step by step
until the entire structure has attained
the hight Of four hundred and eighty
four feet. Historians are commonly
agreed that it was built by the ancien
Egyptians, and some by the Jew
when slaves in Egypt, and it has bee
commonly believed that it was bull
for burial place for the Egyptia
kings. In Rollins Ancient Ilistor
it is stated that one hundred thousan
men were employed ten years in cut
ting the stones from the quarrics an,
fitting them for the structure, and tina
the same number OF men were EN-
ployed twenty years in moving ant
placing them in the pyramid. 1t i
supposed that the stones were move,
on immense RATS in canals dug 70
the purpose. And in this name
alone can we accUmt for the numel
GUS obelisks-whch consist of enol
NOUS stone shafts-which are to
seen all over Egypt. What consum
mate skill in engineering and in arch
lecture must have been in full pla
during the whole progress of tia
stupen2ous work. In our day w
have no conceptions Of the kind c
hosting tackle that must have bee
required to raise those immens
blocks to their place near the SUNNI
of the pyramid, between four and iH
hundred feet from the surface Of tli
earth. There are many works Of ma
in temples, monuments, and sculptul
that mankind beholds with awe an
reverence, and above all stands Il
great pyramid even Like the "cveIlas
ing hills" in grandeur and solidit,
Thus far it has withstootl! the comm
tons of the ages and Eli other worl
or man, beholding the march of I'll
centuries and the passing away of I'll
nations. Great have been the r
searches, and hard has been the labt
OF scientific men to find out its histor
but thus far it is mwritten. The
are those who are now at work to Il
rayel this mystery, and may we hol
that new developments will cause ne
light to dawn again upon the earth
regard to mechanical force and how
use it, that has slumbared for the az
past.
DANvERS MOVING MACHINE TRIAL.