. The history of the castle, town and forest of Knaresbrough, with Harrogate, and it's medicinal springs. the conquest tothe reign of Charles L; when it was sold, by that mo-narch, to certain citizens of London 3 from whom, itpassed through several hands, till the year 1701, whenit was purchased, by John, duke of Newcastle; inwhich noble family, it still remains. A little westward of the bridge, are those stupen-dous monuments of antiquity, called The Arrows : The Y are three large obelisks, of a pyramidical form,fluted towards the top, by their continual exposure tothe weather. They stand nea
. The history of the castle, town and forest of Knaresbrough, with Harrogate, and it's medicinal springs. the conquest tothe reign of Charles L; when it was sold, by that mo-narch, to certain citizens of London 3 from whom, itpassed through several hands, till the year 1701, whenit was purchased, by John, duke of Newcastle; inwhich noble family, it still remains. A little westward of the bridge, are those stupen-dous monuments of antiquity, called The Arrows : The Y are three large obelisks, of a pyramidical form,fluted towards the top, by their continual exposure tothe weather. They stand nearly in a line, from northto south. Some have supposed them to be factitious,and not real stone j as there is no quarry of that sort ofstone, within less than 10 miles of the place; and thatthey are too large, to have been brought from such adistance. This supposition is entirely removed, by theinstance of the vast pile, at Stone-henge, whose stoneswere brought 15 miles; and, the obelisk before saintPeters, at Rome, which is 85 feet in height, and wasbrought from Egypt, by the order of Julias Caesar;. BOROUGHBRIDGE. 335 or, th£ great granite rock, destined for the pedestalof the statue of the Czar Peter, the great, whoseweight was 1200 tons. This immense stone heingfound in a swamp, the count Carburi, of Cefalonia,raised it thereout, and drew it upon rolling balls>several miles, by land, then embarked it on a float,and conducted it down to Petersburgh, between twoships5 and, again disembarked it. This work,says governor Pownal, appears to me, not only the** greatest operation of mechanics, which was ever effected in our world, but unique. In the year 1709, the ground, about the centre obe-lisk, was opened nine feet wide. At first, a good soilwas found, about a foot deep \ and then, a course ofstones, rough, and of several kinds, but most werelarge pebbles, laid in a bed of coarse grit and clay,and so for four or five courses round j under these, wasa strong clay, so hard, th
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