... is easy to perceive what extravagant systems they would frame, while under the influence of this delusion, to account for the monuments discovered in Egypt. • The sight of the pyramids, obelisks, colossal statues, and ruined temples, would fill... Principles of geology - Page 110by sir Charles Lyell (bart.) - 1835Full view - About this book
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