| Show THE OBELISK the obelisk was presented to the city of new york by the khedive 0 f egypt 11 lieutenant ou tenant corn com mander 0 gorringe or rinse U 1 Y s www 1 rv S IN after a three r i years effort obtain ed possession s n of 0 i it t a and it Is pos moved 0 v eedo it to it its s i present post position lon at k an expense of 0 nearly it was fi n 1 nally swung into po at noon janu ary 22 1881 the height of 0 this monument from base 1 to 0 UP tip Is 69 feet 2 all an inches ches th tha measurement bremen bof of the I 1 base 4 square through gli its axis Is 7 feet 8 inches the tha entire nt lre fi weight of the mono lith is 2191 tons since it was qua i aled near the torrid tone it has traversed the entire length of f egypt most of that ot the Medi terra nean sea and the width of 0 the allan L t tic to ocean a dis 07 lance ance of miles r 4 lieving itself a first V rate traveler tia veler for one whose h ose age aga has ex c e 0 d e d thirty div five cent centuries uries in the course se 0 of i it its s exist ence it ba has s seen pharaoh 11 araold and his host going to their def etton in tho the zed red r sea marching to the concu conquest st ot of jer jerusalem salem cae camf mu cyses desolating deso latini the tha f I 1 i a n na d herodotus r a to and other greek t students enga engaged ed in L pursuit of f L egyptian agypt I 1 an t lore alexander the f re great on his victori ous e expedition X P a d I 1 t I 1 0 n through the land of j goshen six and it a halt half centuries of roman koman sovereignty an and C christian 4 gle a at alexandria all the iho ion long g line of mos alos f lem rulers since z i caliph ornar and now leaving altogether I 1 its ts native land it stands looking up on the million dwell eta cis I 1 in it t this his metropolis whose hose site was un 7 to the eastern i world at a time when nyne the he obelisk had bad been bee n in existence for two thousand years yeara i |
