ANCIENT WONDERS.
Nineveh waa fourteen miles long, eight wide, and forty-sir miles around, vrith a wall one hundred feet high, and thick enough for three chariots abreast. Babylon was fifty miles within the wails, which were seventy-five feet thick, and one hundred feet high, with one hundred brazen gates, Tbe temple of Diana, at Epbesus, was 420 feet to the support of tbe roof— it was one hundred years in building. The largest of the pyramids was one hundred and eighty-one feet in height, and eight hundred and fifty-three feet on tbe sides. The baae covered eleven acres. The stones are about sixty feet in i length, and the layers are two hundred and eight. It employed 350,000 men in building. The labyrinth of Egypt contains three hundred chambers and twelve halls. Thebes, in Egypt, presents ruins twenty-seven miles around, and contained 350,000 citizens, and 400,000 slaves. The temple of Delphos was bo rich in donations that it \ was plundered of £12,000, and the Emperor Nero carried away from it, two hundred statues. . The walls of Rome were thirteen miles around.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XIV, Issue 64, 15 March 1879, Page 4
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181ANCIENT WONDERS. Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XIV, Issue 64, 15 March 1879, Page 4
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