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 It is probable that these monuments were first built before the time of
Moses, at least two centuries before the Trojan war. There are still
several obelisks in Egypt; there is one erect, and another fallen at
Alexandria, between the new city and the light-house; one at Matarea,
among the ruins of old Heliopolis; one in the territory of Fayoum, near
ancient Arsinoe; eight or ten among the ruins of Thebes; the two finest
at Luxor, at the entrance of the temple, &c. These obelisks, exclusively
of the pedestals, are mostly from 50 to 100 feet high, and of a red
polished granite (sienite); a few of the later ones are of w