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Title: The history of the castle, town and forest of Knaresbrough, with Harrogate, and it's medicinal springs
Year: 1809 (1800s)
Authors: Hargrove, Ely, 1741-1818
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Publisher: Knaresbrough Printed by Hargrove
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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THE manor of Aldburgh, of which this is a part,
remained vested in the crown, from the conquest to
the reign of Charles L; when it was sold, by that mo-
narch, to certain citizens of London ; from whom, it
passed through several hands, till the year 1701, when
it was purchased, by John, duke of Newcastle; in
which noble family, it still remains.

A little westward of the bridge, are those stupen-
dous monuments of antiquity, called

The Arrows :

THEY are three large obelisks, of a pyramidical form,
fluted towards the top, by their continual exposure to
the weather. They stand nearly in a line, from north
to south. Some have supposed them to be factitious,
and not real stone ; as there is no quarry of that sort of
stone, within less than 10 miles of the place; and that
they are too large, to have been brought from such a
distance. This supposition is entirely removed, by the
instance of the vast pile, at Stone-henge, whose stones
were brought 15 miles; and, the obelisk before saint
Peters, at Rome, which is 85 feet in height, and was
brought from Egypt, by the order of Julias Caesar;
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Obelisks at B. Bridge

BOROUGHBRIDGE. 335

or, the great granite rock, destined for the pedestal
of the statue of the Czar Peter, the great, whose
weight was 1200 tons. This immense stone being
found in a swamp, the count Carburi, of Cefalonia,
raised it thereout, and drew it upon rolling balls,
several miles, by land, then embarked it on a float,
and conducted it down to Petersburgh, between two
ships and, again disembarked it. " This work,"
says governor Pownal, " appears to me, not only the
" greatest operation of mechanics, which was ever "
effected in our world, but unique."
IN the year 1709, the ground, about the centre obe-
lisk, was opened nine feet wide. At first, a good soil
was found, about a foot deep ; and then, a course of
stones, rough, and of several kinds, but most were
large pebbles, laid in a bed of coarse grit and clay,
and so for four or five courses round ; under these, was
a strong clay, so hard, that the spade could not affect
it ; this was near two yards deep from the surface; and,
a little lower, was was the bottom of the stone, resting up-
on clay :* As much of the stone as was within ground,
was a little thicker than that part exposed to the wea-
ther. The entire height, is 30 feet 6 inches, from the bottom.

* The foundation round the bottom of this obelisk, and that of the
wall of Isurium, being pebbles and clay, the primitive cement of the
britons ; shew them both to have been constructed by the same people:
The knowledge of preparing aad using lime, was first brought here, by
the romans.

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