Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 331
sy granite. There was a city called Syenenear this quarry, and so it happened that the blush-coloredstone became known as Syenite. There is nothing particu-larly interesting about a stone-quarry ; merely a big holein the side of a hill, some steam-drills, a derrick or two, anda few workmen cutting… … THE OBELISK AS IT STOOD AT ALEXANDRIA. look in wonder at the work of those wonderful oldquarry-men. The high, rocky mountains stillstand bare and hot in the tropical sun; the verymarks of their tools are there; but of the men andtheir way of working all trace and record are lost,and we can only…
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