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THE NEW YORK OBELISK
Cleopatra's Needle
_WITH A PRELIMINARY SKETCH OF THE HISTORY
ERECTION, USES, AND SIGNIFICATION
OF OBELISKS_
BY
CHARLES E. MOLDENKE, A.M., PH.D.
NEW YORK
ANSON D. F. RANDOLPH AND CO.
38 WEST TWENTY-THIRD STREET
1891
_Copyright_, 1891,
BY CHARLES E. MOLDENKE.
University Press:
PRESSWORK BY
JOHN WILSON AND SON, CAMBRIDGE.
{iii}TABLE OF CONTENTS.
Chapter I. Obelisks--where found, and when, and by whom
erected. 1-11
§1. The present site of obelisks. 1-5.
§2. By whom obelisks were erected. 5-7.
§3. By whom obelisks were ransported. 7-8.
§4. List of obelisks. 8-11.
I. Erect Obelisks. 9-10. II. Prostrate Obelisks. 10-11.