THE WONDERS OF BAALBEK MASONRY.
One has to think slowly in the presence of these ruins. You come near a pedestal only, and find yourself a dwarf. Then on the pedestal stands the column It is fully twenty-three feet around at its base It rises to seventy-five feet, in three lengths of twenty-five feet each, 'lhese are not cemented, but dowelled with iron cramps in the centre. How were they lifted upon their base ? And when, at length, they stood, who put on their capitals, and upon their capitals the entablature, the frieza, the cornice, these last seventeen feet high, and weighing four tons to the superficial foot! And who, and how many, were the cunning workers in that hard stone, who enriched the splendid masonry with such redundancy of ornament. — The. Rv. Canon Goss.
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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume I, Issue 18, 6 December 1883, Page 4
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135THE WONDERS OF BAALBEK MASONRY. Poverty Bay Standard, Volume I, Issue 18, 6 December 1883, Page 4
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