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marriage• with the daughters of men : yet it can scarce
be imagined, that the analogy between those giants and
their father», was so disproportionate, as to admit of
either parent being of the common stature of men after
the deluge ; surely the immediate descendants of Seth
and Knos, were of larger stature than we are. This
once admitted, the inference is not unreasonable, that
the management of these gigantic stones, so large and
ponderous in their mountain-like collection, as to
withstand the impetuosity of the waters of the deluge,
was attended with less difficulty, in the hands of those
builders, than stones of half the size, would be in the
bands of our masons. And though neither of these
suppositions obtains in the idea of such stones, being
raised by the naked hands ; the advantage of stature,
and of course, proportionate strength, must be allowed
very great in drrssing, or hewing, or in working assistant
engines, such as the jack amongst us-.
By common rollers and levers, the largest of those
»tones might easily be conveyed to the foot of the
Pyramid : the elevation, therefore, is all that excites
wonder : and without incumbering the discussion of
this achievement, with Mr. King's notion of sloping
banks &c.(Munimenta Antiqua Vol 1, p. 2G4), by means
of the simple instruments, called jacks, applied to the
ends of each stone, and worked by men of greater
strength, than men have in these days, they might easily be
raised to about 4 or4§ fcetofheight.thegreatestelevation
any stone, in the pile, would require.; for, the ground-
rourse being laid, each stone, for the next course, by
these jacks, might be raised, till the bottom of it was as
high, as the top of the ground coarse ; and then by
rollers and strong levers with machines, which are
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marriage• with the daughters of men : yet it can scarce
be imagined, that the analogy between those giants and
their father», was so disproportionate, as to admit of
either parent being of the common stature of men after
the deluge ; surely the immediate descendants of Seth
and Knos, were of larger stature than we are. This
once admitted, the inference is not unreasonable, that
the management of these gigantic stones, so large and
ponderous in their mountain-like collection, as to
withstand the impetuosity of the waters of the deluge,
was attended with less difficulty, in the hands of those
builders, than stones of half the size, would be in the
bands of our masons. And though neither of these
suppositions obtains in the idea of such stones, being
raised by the naked hands ; the advantage of stature,
and of course, proportionate strength, must be allowed
very great in drrssing, or hewing, or in working assistant
engines, such as the jack amongst us-.
By common rollers and levers, the largest of those
»tones might easily be conveyed to the foot of the
Pyramid : the elevation, therefore, is all that excites
wonder : and without incumbering the discussion of
this achievement, with Mr. King's notion of sloping
banks &c.(Munimenta Antiqua Vol 1, p. 2G4), by means
of the simple instruments, called jacks, applied to the
ends of each stone, and worked by men of greater
strength, than men have in these days, they might easily be
raised to about 4 or4§ fcetofheight.thegreatestelevation
any stone, in the pile, would require.; for, the ground-
rourse being laid, each stone, for the next course, by
these jacks, might be raised, till the bottom of it was as
high, as the top of the ground coarse ; and then by
rollers and strong levers with machines, which are
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