Read the following text, excerpted from "egypt's master builders," by noreen doyle. then, write three to five sentences summarizing the main ideas of the excerpt. egypt is rich in many kinds of stone suitable for building. limestone and sandstone were quarried from the hills using picks made of stone that was denser than the limestone or sandstone. when builders needed to break apart a hard stone such as granite, they had workers use balls of dolerite, a very dense rock. quarrying was extremely difficult work and usually assigned to prisoners of war or convicted criminals. sometimes, big levers, made from beams of wood, were used to pry a block free. a single huge blockof stone is called a monolith. monolithic obelisks and colossal statues could weigh more than 1,000 tons each. to move stone blocks, the egyptians built roadways and ramps near quarries and building sites. they placed the stone on sledges with wooden runners and poured water in front of the sledge to make the roadway muddy and slippery. hundreds of men might be needed to haul the heaviest loads. logs were also used as rollers on which to slide the blocks. boats made it easier to transport building materials over long distances.

source text: from the sketch here given it will be seen, that our good grandmothers differed considerably in their ideas of a fine figure, from their scantily dressed descendants of the present day. a fine lady, in those times, waddled under more clothes even on a fair summer's day, than would have clad the whole bevy of a modern ball room. nor were they the less admired by the gentlemen in consequence thereof. on the contrary, the greatness of a lover's passion seemed to increase in proportion to the magnitude of its object—and a voluminous damsel, arrayed in a dozen of petticoats, was declared by a low-dutch sonnetteer of the province, to be radiant as a sunflower, and luxuriant as a full blown cabbage. certain it is, that in those days, the heart of a lover could not contain more than one lady at a time; whereas the heart of a modern gallant has often room enough to accommodate half a dozen - - the reason of which i conclude to be, either that the hearts of the gentlemen have grown larger, or the persons of the ladies smaller — this however is a question for physiologists to determine. add punctuation to the following excerpt. writing under the name of diedrich knickerbocker washington irving aimed his potent satire at as diverse topics as political rivals such as thomas jefferson to the very ideal of looking back on the past affectionately: a fine lady, in those times, waddled under more clothes even on a fair summer's day, than would have clad the whole bevy of a modern ball room. a voluminous damsel, arrayed in a dozen of petticoats, was declared by a low-dutch sonnetteer of the province, to be radiant as a sunflower, and luxuriant as a full blown cabbage. in those days, the heart of a lover could not contain more than one lady at a time; whereas the heart of a modern gallant has often room enough to accommodate half a dozen

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