REMARKABLE WORKS OF HUMAN LABOR.
Kinevah was 16 miles long, 8 miles wide, and 49 miles round, with a wall 100 feet high, and thick enough for three chariots abreast. Babyton was 50 miles within the walls, - -\ which were 74 feet thick; and 100 feet If high with 190 brazen gates, ' The Temple of Diana, a\ Ephesu,s, was 420 feet to the quflppjt of the roof, Ji was 100 years in bu,'ildjng. Tho largest of the* Pyramids is 481 feet in height, and 953 feet on the sides j the : base covers 11 acres; the stones are about" 60 feet in. length, and the layers 208 feet. It employed 820,000 men in the building.',,' The Labyrinths in Egypt contained 300 ohambers and 12 halls. Thebes, in Egypt, presents ruins 27 miles round, and a hundred gates; • Carthage was 29 miles round. ■• , ~. Athens was 25 miles round, and contained 350,000 citizens, and 400,000 slaves. ''■';.'" The Temple pf Bejphos w»a so rich in donations that it wis plundered of . £10,000,000 and 200 atfttues,
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XVI, Issue 2160, 2 December 1885, Page 2
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171REMARKABLE WORKS OF HUMAN LABOR. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XVI, Issue 2160, 2 December 1885, Page 2
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