Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 333
and did theirwork so well, that the obelisk can be used as a sun-dial to this day. They knew more about the use one of the big stones. It so happened that theRomans, under Augustus Caesar, had taken downtwo of the stones in Upper Egypt, and had removedthem to Alexandria, and set them up before one… … PUTTING THE OBELISK of ropes and pulleys, and it is recorded that they didthe work with only forty horses, six hundred men,and forty-six cranes. The Romans found hard workto fasten their ropes to the obelisk, and had to drillholes in the top of the stone, through which theropes were passed. The old…
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