The Pyramids of Egypt are among the seven wonders of the world.
Cheops, said to be the largest of them all, covers an area of
over thirteen acres, is larger than Madison Square, New York,
and twice the height of Trinity Church spire. It contains enough
material to build a city as large as Washington, including all
its public buildings. Four hundred thousand men were employed
twenty years to build it. The purpose of its erection was that
it might be the tomb of kings.
How much better would have been the result if all this labor had
been spent to serve those who were alive and the then future
generations.
(1749)