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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.

  Chapter II. The quarrying, transporting, and raising of