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APPENDIX. No. III.
PART I.
114
“ the fa6l; for I had never feen either of thole au-
“ thors you quote. Norden feems to treat both Lucas
“ and Maillet with contempt, for advancing fuch an
“ opinion d ; but probably he never examined the cir-
i The following is the pajfage alluded to.
“ With regard to the foundation, on which the Pedeftal and the Column
“ reft, it is open on one ftde. An Arab, it is faid, having dug under this
“ foundation, placed there a box of gunpowder, in order to blow up the
“ Column, and to make himfelf mafter of the treafures, which he imagined
“ to be buried underneath. Unhappily for him, he was not a good miner.
“ His enterprife mifcarried. The mine blew up, and difranged only four
“ ftones, which made part of the foundation, of which the three other fides
“ remained entire. The only good, which refulted from it, was, that the
“ curious were afterwards able to fee what ftones had been employed in this
“ foundation. I have obferved there a piece of white oriental marble,
“ quire full of hieroglyphics, fo well preferved, that it has been ealy for me
“ to draw them exactly. [See Plate iii.] Another large piece, which is
“ removed from its place, and which, notwithftanding, lies bare, is of Sici-
“ lian marble, yellowifh and fpotted with red ; it has equally its hierogly-
,£ phics, but fo damaged, that I have not been able to draw any thing from
“ it. A piece of a little Column had likewife ferved for this foundation,
“ as well as fome other pieces of marble, that have nothing remarkable.
“ I have already faid, that the damage has been only on one fide. That
“ which has been taken away of the foundation leaves at moft a void of
“ three feet, underneath the pedeftal; and the middle, as well as the three
“ other fides, continue in their original folidity. Paul Lucas, however,
“ who has not been content with giving us a drawing that is not exadf of
“ this Column, reprefents it to us as refting only upon a fingle ftone in the
“ middle. In the main one may pafs over this fault, as well as fo many
“ others : but that a Conful General, [Monf. de Maillet] who had refided
“ fixteen years at Cairo, who pretends to have feen better than any other
“ traveller, and who had been long enough at Alexandria, to be able to
“ examine this Column, fhould have contented himfelf with copying the
PART I.
114
“ the fa6l; for I had never feen either of thole au-
“ thors you quote. Norden feems to treat both Lucas
“ and Maillet with contempt, for advancing fuch an
“ opinion d ; but probably he never examined the cir-
i The following is the pajfage alluded to.
“ With regard to the foundation, on which the Pedeftal and the Column
“ reft, it is open on one ftde. An Arab, it is faid, having dug under this
“ foundation, placed there a box of gunpowder, in order to blow up the
“ Column, and to make himfelf mafter of the treafures, which he imagined
“ to be buried underneath. Unhappily for him, he was not a good miner.
“ His enterprife mifcarried. The mine blew up, and difranged only four
“ ftones, which made part of the foundation, of which the three other fides
“ remained entire. The only good, which refulted from it, was, that the
“ curious were afterwards able to fee what ftones had been employed in this
“ foundation. I have obferved there a piece of white oriental marble,
“ quire full of hieroglyphics, fo well preferved, that it has been ealy for me
“ to draw them exactly. [See Plate iii.] Another large piece, which is
“ removed from its place, and which, notwithftanding, lies bare, is of Sici-
“ lian marble, yellowifh and fpotted with red ; it has equally its hierogly-
,£ phics, but fo damaged, that I have not been able to draw any thing from
“ it. A piece of a little Column had likewife ferved for this foundation,
“ as well as fome other pieces of marble, that have nothing remarkable.
“ I have already faid, that the damage has been only on one fide. That
“ which has been taken away of the foundation leaves at moft a void of
“ three feet, underneath the pedeftal; and the middle, as well as the three
“ other fides, continue in their original folidity. Paul Lucas, however,
“ who has not been content with giving us a drawing that is not exadf of
“ this Column, reprefents it to us as refting only upon a fingle ftone in the
“ middle. In the main one may pafs over this fault, as well as fo many
“ others : but that a Conful General, [Monf. de Maillet] who had refided
“ fixteen years at Cairo, who pretends to have feen better than any other
“ traveller, and who had been long enough at Alexandria, to be able to
“ examine this Column, fhould have contented himfelf with copying the