Excerpt from The New Monthly Magazine, 1862, Vol. 125<br><br>The peculiar monument to which the term obelisk was originally given, and to which it ought to be restrained, was of Egyptian origin, was a monolith, and was a truncated, four-sided slender pyramid, the terminal being called the pyramidion. Some, as Miiller in his Manual of Archmology, do not insist upon the number of sides being four, but say they are generally so, and in all the form is tapering - that is to say, the dimensions decrease from one end to the other.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.