Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 339
n the pier. The idea of using the tide to loadheavy weights on board a boat is not new, yet this 3i8 THE TRUE STORY OF THE OBELISK. [February, is the first time it was ever used exactly in this edge) in the middle. These were fastened in the manner, and to lift such an immense weight in a boxes in… … shows the obelisk started upon its long journeyto Central Park. Here is the broad Hudson, withthe wooded Palisades in the distance. A railroadtrain is waiting for the stone to pass, and has comeclose up to the huge thing snugly sleeping in itswooden box. The pedestal was carried to its placeon a…
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