. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. Science; Science -- New York (State). Study of the New York Obelisk as a Decayed Boulder. 133 more in the orig-inal position at An. The incorrect statement of Gorringe as to the Alexandrian position of the foundation, and his silence on the readjustment of the shaft, remain without explanation. But in his fortunate accuracy in that readjustment, I can only con- jecture that he may possibly have been guided by a knowledge of the true orientation of a surviving companion of our Obelisk, the one still on the site of An : if it shall be found, by more
. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. Science; Science -- New York (State). Study of the New York Obelisk as a Decayed Boulder. 133 more in the orig-inal position at An. The incorrect statement of Gorringe as to the Alexandrian position of the foundation, and his silence on the readjustment of the shaft, remain without explanation. But in his fortunate accuracy in that readjustment, I can only con- jecture that he may possibly have been guided by a knowledge of the true orientation of a surviving companion of our Obelisk, the one still on the site of An : if it shall be found, by more close obser- vation than that recorded bv Niebuhr, that this reallv faces to the present direction of the side of the New York Obelisk, W. 27° N. I have plotted, on the accompanying illustration (Fig. 1), the Fig. Q//(htioti^7T~ positions which our roving monolith has successively occupied on its three sites, always accompanied, until now, by its London fellow t)n its left: viz., its positions at An and at New York, by the square with dotted line and nick; its position at Alexandria, by the square with broken line and nick; and, for comparison, its position at Alex- andria, according to Gorringe, by the square with continuous line. The interspaces, between the two obelisks and between them and the shore, are contracted in the illustration, for convenience. It is much to be regretted that a satisfactory explanation of the statement in question has probably been lost by the death of the eminent engineer, in July, 1881, only five months after the comple- tion of his great enterprise, in the successful transfer and re-erection of the Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original New York Academy of Sciences; Casey, Thos. L. (Thomas Lincoln), 1857-1925; Van Ingen, Gilbert, 1869-; Poor, Char
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