This statue was 105 feet high, and hollow, with a winding staircase to its head. After standing 56 years, it was destroyed by an earthquake, 224 years B. C. It lay for nine centuries on the ground. It is said to have required 900 camels to remove the metal, hence it must have weighed over 700,000 pounds. It was erected to express the gratitude of the City of Rhodes to their allies under the King of Egypt against their enemy, the King of Macedon.
THE EIGHTH WONDER OF THE WORLD.
MILLIE CHRISTINA
The Carolina Twin
Born in Columbus Co.,
North Carolina
JULY 11th, 1851.
THE MAUSOLEUM OF HALICARNASSUS.
This structure was erected by Artemisia, who was the sister, wife and successor of Mausolus, King of Caria, B. C. 353. It was a rectangular building, surrounded by an Ionic portico of 36 columns, and surmounted by a pyramid rising in 24 steps, upon the summit of which was a colossal marble quadriga, with a statue of Mausolus.
THE PYRAMIDS OF EGYPT.
These were 70 in number. They were constructed of blocks of red granite and of a very hard stone. These were of extraordinary size, and their transportation and adjustment indicates a surprising degree of mechanical skill. The Great Pyramid was supposed to have been erected about 3,800 years B. C., and is of the enormous size of 746 square feet at its base, covering about 12 acres of ground, and is over 450 feet high. It was probably erected as a burial place for the rulers of Egypt.
THE HANGING GARDENS OF BABYLON.
These were built by Nebuchadnezzar to gratify his wife, Amytis, a native of Media, and who longed for something to remind her of her mountain home. They consisted of an artificial hill 400 feet square at the base, and rising in terraces to a height which overtopped the walls of the city. These terraces were filled with luxuriant vegetation of all kinds, even large trees, and were watered by a fountain at the summit, fed with water drawn from the Euphrates.