London, Victoria Embankment And Cleopatra's Needle 1890
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A steamer, with a party of sightseers on board, has just left the quay heading down river. The women cluster at the stern under parasols. A little further along on the left is Cleopatra’s Needle. This far-famed monument was transported to Britain through the treacherous Bay of Biscay from the deserts of Egypt, where it had lain buried and forgotten in the sands. It took considerable ingenuity to erect it in such a close space, for it is almost seventy feet in height.
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