THE NEW YORK  OBELISK
Cleopatra's Needle
WITH A PRELIMINARY SKETCH  OF THE HISTORY
  ERECTION, USES, AND SIGNIFICATION
  OF OBELISKS
BY
CHARLES E. MOLDENKE, A.M.,  Ph.D.
NEW  YORK
ANSON D. F. RANDOLPH AND  CO.
38 West  Twenty-Third Street
1891
Copyright, 1891,
By Charles E. Moldenke.
University Press:
  PRESSWORK BY
John Wilson and Son, Cambridge.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS.
Chapter I. Obelisks—where found, and when, and by whom erected.1—11
§1. The present site of obelisks. 1-5. §2. By whom obelisks were erected. 5-7. §3. By whom obelisks were transported. 7-8. §4. List of obelisks. 8-11. I.      Erect Obelisks. 9-10. II. Prostrate Obelisks. 10-11.
Chapter II. The quarrying, transporting, and raising of obelisks.12—17
§1. How obelisks were quarried. 12-15. §2. How obelisks were transported. 15-17. §3. How obelisks were raised. 17.
Chapter III. The form, name, dimensions, invention, material, and use of      obelisks.18—25
§1. The form of the obelisk and the pyramidion. 18-21. §2. The derivation of the name "obelisk". 21-22. §3. The dimensions of obelisks. 22-23. §4. The material of obelisks. 23-24. §5. The invention of obelisks and the use they      were put to. 24-...                        
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