Produced by The Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive.) [Illustration: THE HIEROGLYPHICS ON CLEOPATRA'S NEEDLE. (The central columns were cut by THOTHMES III., the side columns by RAMESES II. The Inscriptions at the base of each side are much mutilated, and those on the Pyramidion are not shown in the Plate.)] BY-PATHS OF BIBLE KNOWLEDGE. I. CLEOPATRA'S NEEDLE: A HISTORY OF THE LONDON OBELISK, WITH AN EXPOSITION OF THE HIEROGLYPHICS. BY THE REV. JAMES KING, M.A., AUTHORIZED LECTURER TO THE PALESTINE EXPLORATION FUND. "The Land of Egypt is before thee."--_Gen._ xlvii. 6. LONDON: THE RELIGIOUS TRACT SOCIETY, 56, PATERNOSTER ROW, 65, ST. PAUL'S CHURCHYARD, AND 164, PICCADILLY. CONTENTS. CHAPTER PAGE INTRODUCTION 5 I.--THE RELIGIOUS CHARACTER OF THE ANCIENT EGYPTIANS 9 II.--OBELISKS, AND THE OBELISK FAMILY 17 III.--THE LARGEST STONES OF THE WORLD 27 IV.--THE LONDON OBELISK 36 V.--HOW THE HIEROGLYPHIC LANGUAGE WAS RECOVERED 47 VI.--THE INTERPRETATION OF HIEROGLYPHICS 53 VII.--THOTHMES III. 61 VIII.--THE HIEROGLYPHICS OF THOTHMES III. TRANSLATION OF THE FIRST SIDE 69 IX.--THE HIEROGLYPHICS OF THOTHMES III. TRANSLATION OF THE SECOND SIDE 83 X.--THE HIEROGLYPHICS OF THOTHMES III. TRANSLATION OF THE THIRD SIDE 88 XI.--THE HIEROGLYPHICS OF THOTHMES III. TRANSLATION OF THE FOURTH SIDE 92 XII.--RAMESES II. 95 XIII.--THE HIEROGLYPHICS OF RAMESES II. 101 XIV.--THE RECENT DISCOVERY OF THE MUMMIES OF THOTHMES III. AND RAMESES II. AT DEIR-EL-BAHARI 111 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. PAGE THOTH 12 OBELISK OF USERTESEN I., STILL STANDING AT HELIOPOLIS 20 OBELISK OF THOTHMES III., AT CONSTANTINOPLE 23 COLOSSAL STATUE OF RAMESES II., AT MEMPHIS 29 CLEOPATRA'S NEEDLE, AT ALEXANDRIA 38 CLEOPATRA'S NEEDLE, ON THE THAMES EMBANKMENT 44 THE ROSETTA STONE 48