Part 39 (1/2)

It is ales of the seasons first led ht retire for shelter; in process of tiradually improved, and habitations were constructed of reater skill and variety were displayed in their orna

Of ere the first huts composed?

Probably of the branches of trees driven into the ground, and covered with th, as ht, and laid others across thes; froular architecture, and built edifices of brick and stone; the trunks of trees which supported their dwellings gave them a notion of pillars or columns, which they afterwards erected ofuncivilized tribes at this day, sos entirely closed during the winter ions, their habitations are built of stakes, leaves, and turf, in the shape of a soldier's tent In Africa, their kraals or huts are constructed in this manner, but of a circular form, with a hole at the top to let out the smoke In many of the South Sea Islands, the natives, when first discovered, had progressed still further, having learnt to elevate the roofs on poles, and to fill in the sides of their houses with boughs or rushes, mud or sods

_Probably_,

_Notion_, idea

_Durable_, lasting

What people are represented by the ancient writers as having brought the art of Building to a greater state of perfection?

The inhabitants of the city of Tyre, to whom Solomon had recourse for workmen to build the Temple Isaias, in his twenty-third chapter, speaks of the Tyrians and Egyptians, as having brought it to a great degree of nificence; as may be drawn from the various accounts handed down to us, and the remains of their obelisks, pyrah and slender four-sided pyramid, raised as an ornament in some public place; and frequently covered with inscriptions and hieroglyphics[16] This kind of monument appears to be very ancient; they were first made use of to declare to posterity the principal precepts of philosophy; to mark the hours of the day by the shadohich they cast on the ground; and, in after-times, to immortalize the actions of heroes, and perpetuate the memory of persons beloved

[Footnote 16: See Chapter XIV]

_Inscription_, solyphics_, emblems by which words were implied They were used before the invention of alphabets

_Ienerations, descendants

_I; to perpetuate the

What is a Pyra froradually di in size till it ends in a point at the top Like the obelisk, pyraular events, or to transnificence of princes; but oftener as funeral s

_Triangular_, three-sided, having three angles

_Di s is deposited

Is it knoere the erectors of these Buildings?

No; it is a curious fact that the Egyptian pyrareat antiquity, should have the time of their erection and the names of their founders wrapt in such completetheree in their accounts of those who built the certain is known of their history

_Founder_, one who establishes or erects

_Mystery_, profound secresy