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XXII. Account of the Erection of a Granite Obelisk, of a single Stone, about seventy feet high, at Seringapatam

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 January 2013

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On the 19th of February last, I had the honour of reading to this Society, some notices of the mode of working and polishing granite, by the natives of India.

One object of that paper was, from a view of the immense masses, which Indian artists are still in the habit of rendering obedient to their simple instruments, to deduce the probability of the similarity, if not of the identity, of the means now in use among them, with the processes by which the architects of the ancient world, raised the stupendous monuments which we still see in existence; and, as an instance of the very recent exercise of these arts, I mentioned the erection of a granite obelisk near Seringapatam, to the memory of the late Josiah Webbe, Esq. who died in the year 1805.

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Copyright © Royal Society of Edinburgh 1823

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page 307 note * This Paper will be found in the Edinburgh Philosophical Journal, vol. iv. p. 349.

page 308 note * Memoirs, vol. i. p. 108.