Year: 1860




still makes one of the leading attractions
in the mu cum of Natchez.
(From tb" New To.k Obserysr)
Sax . SCIENTIFIC.


THE STEREOSCOPE; ITS WONDROUS


n BEATTY AND POWER.


By the Kev. ST.. Prime, author
of the power of


--y prayer. -.......


As We for the first came in sight of the
pyramids i'll Egypt, we were instantly
seized with the thought that we had
seen them before. Was it a dream?
Had we in moment of wading delusion
been here in some dim period of the
past, or was this the reproduction in
the SORT ofan image ormed by long
hours Of silent me iitati,n on these o!i
monuments of buried things! We stood
awe struck, not more by the mlgktiness
of the grand piles ofpast ages heaped
up in those stones, than we were by
the startling impression that this is not
orr first visit to the pyramids, though
We had certainly never been in Egypt
before.


A moments reflection called to mind
the Cosmoramas Of Prof Sattler, which
had been exhibited in New York
These we had frequently seen. and 50
true were they to nature and art, tn t
the very sand on which we were now
standing, and the huge sphynx at our
left hand. and these hoary heaps of monu
mental stone four hundred feet high,
and covering ten acres Of ground, now
for the first time actually seen with
these eyes, were IA familisr as the
scenes of childhood But those Cos
morans were nothing to be thought Of
compared to the Photographic art as
sisted by the stereoscope. We are
not given to raptures, ana are not dis
posed to speak enthusiastically, but we
are in the mood Just now of saving that
we have seen at Authony's Sereosco-
pic Gallery. 5of Broadway, Yet no de-
scription Of ours will DO justice to the
beautiful results If ths most beautiful
of all the arts. There is nothing in the
power Of the pencil or chlsel,. nothing
in the skill or patience of man to pro
duce such effects rs the sun painting IN
paper, Nv which the perfect image, as in
a mirror, is Impressed anil perpetuatsd
to be transported to the ends Of the
world, and there stu'led with the same
satisfaction, that the traveller enjoys
who looks on the scene after tolsome
journeys over land and sea. In some
respects the pleasure is greater. For
the traveller has the dlscomforts of
travel; to say nothing Of the costs Of it.
he has its risks ani its tolls; bu: vheth
er we are believed or not, we assert it,
intelllgen'ly that we cannot perceive
wherein it is better to see the ruins Of
an Egyptian temple on the ground than
here in Anshony's Stereoscopes Take
for example the temple Of Abou Slmbel
The carve'l images sit in everlasting
stone on The outer wall, and the great
wall, and the great. rock remains age
after age the same, and as we look at
them and it in this stereoscope, the i'm
preston is as vivid as the stone itself
could make it. You may sit for hours,
ifyou will, and study every form and
feature Of this wondrous work, and the
longer and more minutely it is exam
ined, the more perfect even IN imper-
fection comes out the representation Of
the original. There is the very crack
in the stone across the bridg dge Of the
principal figures nose, and the piece
seems just rea ~ to fall out, 80 real
that you would like to put your hand on
it and dispel the illusion, and convince
yourself that it is the actual object, and
not picture that you are now studying