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nOof.es arranged. and there ooly remained the
• ioew9 of war to be provided. It waS nt' this
juncture thllt ~r. :r:,aslDuS WiL_on came for·
ward, aod If Ule obelisk w •• , d'l"tlncd to be
erected in J"ondon,it was to Ihat gentleman
that the tbanks of the nation would be primo'
, arlly due. .
• ~ Such being the history of Ihe monument,
he thougbt no one could ;ay that the efforts
to preserve it from destruction bad been mis-,
,directed. I'_ing to the more selenUfic part
oOr tJ .... subject, narnell'> Ibe.en¢DeCnug ap"-
pliances adopted In connection 'With the
trans",>rt .. nd erection of obelisk., Mr. Dixon
" .. hllbat the Egyptian. lelt no deelslv,e record
of their plan ; but in the erection of the 8t.
I'eter'" obelisk before the Vatican, theliamRns
employed for': month the united power
of filteen hundred men and one bundre,) and
forty horse.. 'rbe Jo'rench method in 183:;
was not ,materially different, altbough Uley
economi~c~ labor .bet~r, botb consisUng In
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building lip a timber framework round the
'1belisk, and blluling It into IW upriSbt ,po: