  - INTRODUCTION.
- ?1. Preliminary remarks •1
- ?2. Account of the clearance •1, 2
- CHAPTER I.—DESCRIPTION OF THE OBELISK.
- ?3. General description and dimensions •3
- ?4. Removal of top layers of rock by burning and wedging •4, 5
- ?5. Rough-dressing of north wall of north trench •5
- ?6. Test-shafts •6
- ?7. Cracks and fissures •6, 7
- ?8. Rendering the face of the obelisk flat •7
- ?9. Ancient guide-lines •8
- 10. Later scheme for a smaller obelisk •8
- 11. Comparison of later scheme with some known obelisks •9
- CHAPTER II.—THE TRENCH.
- 12. Description •11
- 13. Dolerite “pounders” and their use •12, 13
- 14. Arrangement of workmen •13, 14
- 15. Time taken in making trench •14, 15
- CHAPTER III.—THE UPPER QUARRY-FACE.
- 16. Description •17
- 17. Scales drawn on the rock •18
- 18. Discussion on their nature •18, 19
- 19. Traces of inscriptions •20
- 20. Bed from which an obelisk (?) has been removed •20, 21
- CHAPTER IV.—EXTRACTION OF OBELISK FROM QUARRY.
- 21. Possible detachment by means of wedges •23
- 22. More probably completely undermined •24
- 23. Reduction of labour by using levers •24, 25
- 24. Sizes of ropes •25
- 25. Chisels used in cutting wedge-slots •25, 26
- 26. Suggestions by various authors on above subject •26
- 27. Probability of tempering copper •27
- CHAPTER V.—TRANSPORT OF OBELISKS.
- 28. Egyptian accounts of expeditions •29, 30
- 29. Other accounts in later times •30
- 30. Was the obelisk placed on rollers? •31
- 31. Practical considerations •31, 32
- 32. Possible use of sleds in conjunction with rollers •32
- 33. Direction to be taken towards the Nile •32
- 34. Notes on transport-boats •32, 33
- CHAPTER VI.—ERECTION OF OBELISKS.
- 35. Paucity of ancient accounts •35, 36
- 36. Theory of direct raising •36
- 37. Theory of lowering off an embankment •37
- 38. Probable use of rollers and levers •37, 38
- 39. Use of capstans, gyns and blocks and tackles unlikely •38
- 40. Obelisk probably lowered into funnel above pedestal •38–41
- 41. Practical considerations •41
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