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The Bulletin
Fix this text“The Bulletin,” Vol. 65.—N0. 3353
Fix this textWednesday, May 17, 1944
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Fix this textRegistered at the Genera! Post Office, Sydney, N.S.W., Australia, for Transmission by Post as a Newspaper.
Fix this textSeppelts
Fix this textTHAMES EMBANKMENT AND OBELISK, LONDON.
Fix this textONE of the greatest recent improvements in the World’s
Fix this textMetropolis is its embankment along the Thames. The wall
Fix this textnext to the river is of granite, and is backed with solid masonry
Fix this texteight feet thick and forty feet high. This makes a handsome drive-
Fix this textway one hundred feet in width, lighted by electricity, planted with
Fix this texttrees, and having several landing piers for the river steamers. One
Fix this textof the most remarkable relics of antiquity which the world pos-
Fix this textsesses stands now upon this river thoroughfare. It is the Egyptian
Fix this textObelisk, popularly known as “Cleopatra’s Needle, which was,
Fix this texthowever, hewn from the primitive volcanic granite 1500 years
Fix this textbefore that “Siren of the Nile” ever ensnared by her beauty Csesai
Fix this textand Mark Antony. To convey this from Alexandria to England,
Fix this textas was done in 1877, proved a very expensive and difficult under-
Fix this texttaking. Even after it had been successfully embarked at Alexan-
Fix this textdria, the little iron vessel which had been specially prepared for it
Fix this textwas shipwrecked and temporarily abandoned in the Bay of Biscay.
Fix this textA passing steamer rescued it and towed it into the harbor of
Fix this textFerrol on the Spanish coast. Thence it was conveyed to the Ihames,
Fix this textand finally was erected here where it now stands in triumph. Yet
Fix this textone can hardly look upon this symbol of the sun’s bright rays,
Fix this texthere in this city of fogs and smoke, without regarding this ancient
Fix this textmonolith as an exile from a land where through the entire year
Fix this textthe sky is rarely darkened by a cloud. Nevertheless, like many
Fix this textillustrious exiles, its sojourn on the Thames embankment will no
Fix this textdoubt be of use to those who gaze upon its stately form, by remind-
Fix this texting them of the power and glory of ancient Egypt, beside whose
Fix this textruins London seems the creation of yesterday.
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| location=Sydney, N.S.W
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