The graphic and historical illustrator; an original miscellany of literary, antiquarian, and topographical information, embellished with one hundred and fifty woodcuts . Baal or the sun was the chief object. To thisfalse god these Phoenician merchants erected the pillar,the altar, &c. wherever they established a accounts for the striking semblance that is to befound in the remains of ancient days still extant inplaces so widely remote from each other; at the sametime these remains attest the wide range that com-merce had taken but a very few centuries after theDeluge. In this c
The graphic and historical illustrator; an original miscellany of literary, antiquarian, and topographical information, embellished with one hundred and fifty woodcuts . Baal or the sun was the chief object. To thisfalse god these Phoenician merchants erected the pillar,the altar, &c. wherever they established a accounts for the striking semblance that is to befound in the remains of ancient days still extant inplaces so widely remote from each other; at the sametime these remains attest the wide range that com-merce had taken but a very few centuries after theDeluge. In this country there are many of theserude pillars, some of which are immense stones, stand-ing from fifteen to more than twenty feet out of theground, of which there are instances in all parts of Bri- THE GRAPHIC ILLUSTRATOR. 73 tain, the low and fenny counties excepted. At Rud-stone, in Yorkshire, stands one of these large pillars,of which the annexed wood-cut gives a correctdelineation :* at Brighton, where a stone is placed at the foot ofa sepulchral mound, reminding one of the pillar ofRachels grave. There are also similar instances inother parts of the In Palestine, in the patriarchal times, the pillarsmight be discriminated from each other, and theirprimitive designation recognized ; but in the presentday Ave have no exact means of discriminating- them,except perhaps with regard to the sepulchral pillar, ofwhich there is an instance in a field near the church * The immense single stone represented in the cut, standswithin a few yards of the north-east corner of Rudstone church,on the Wolds, in the East Riding of Yorkshire : the churchitself is situated on an eminence, not very far from the , in his Eboracum, describes it as coarse rag-stone,or mill-stone grit; and its weight is computed at between fortyand fifty tons. In form (the sides being slightly concave) itapproaches to the oval, the breadth being five feet ten inches,and the thickness two feet thr
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