The masterpieces of the Centennial international exhibition of 1876 .. . peculiarly suggestive andappropriate in choosingfor the ornamentation ofa clock—a mechanicalapparatus that recordsthe flight of time—em-blems and figures takenfrom that country whosevery existence to-day isa constant reminder ofthe centuries gone by,whose monuments standas silent but sublime rec-cords of the glory of past Greek Vase: Mitchell, l\incc &> lYew Egyptian Clock: MitJiell, Vance if Co., Mew York. 98 THE INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION, 1876. acres. The very name of Kgypt brings up to the imagination the
The masterpieces of the Centennial international exhibition of 1876 .. . peculiarly suggestive andappropriate in choosingfor the ornamentation ofa clock—a mechanicalapparatus that recordsthe flight of time—em-blems and figures takenfrom that country whosevery existence to-day isa constant reminder ofthe centuries gone by,whose monuments standas silent but sublime rec-cords of the glory of past Greek Vase: Mitchell, l\incc &> lYew Egyptian Clock: MitJiell, Vance if Co., Mew York. 98 THE INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION, 1876. acres. The very name of Kgypt brings up to the imagination the splended reignsof the Ptolomies and the Pharaohs, the superb pageants that are recorded inpictorial inscriptions on the tombs of the kings and in the comparatively modernpapyrus and manuscript. And the fact that but a few of the stupendous worksof that astonishing epoch of civilization are preserved to us intact, while ourmeans of comparison are entirely inadequate to apply to the even more stupen-dous ruins that uprear themselves above the present level of die land, makes uscontemplate the achievements of that age with something akin to awe. Whodare say what was the limit of the knowledge of the ancient Egyptians?Who can affirm that that vast monument of manual labor, that grandestachievement of engineering skill kncnvn to the world—the Great Pyramid—does not stand the silent monument to some gigantic discovery in science ofwhich
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