THE WORLD'S GREAT STATUES COMPARED.
[NEW YORK WOULD.] The statue of Liberty Enlightening the World is the largest work of its kind that has ever been executed. The famous Colossus of Rhodes, according to the proportions which the legends attribute to it, was but a miniature in comparison. Other great statues are also in comparison quite small. Thus the Bavaria, at Munich, measures 16 metres 70 centimetres ; the Virgin of Puy, 16 metres i St. Charles Bcrromeo, 22 metres. The Vendome Column in Paris is only 44 metres in height, and Liberty Enlightening the World measures 46 metres from the base to the top of the torch, or 305.11 feet above mean low. water mark. An idea of its size may be formed from the following figures : — The forefinger is 2.45. metres in length and 1.44 metres in circumference at the second joint. The nail measures .35 metre by .26 metre. The head is 4.40 metres in height. The eye is .65 metre in width. The nose is 1.12 metres in length. (A metre equels 39.368 inches.) About forty persons can be accommodated in the head. It is possible to ascend into the torch above the hand. It will easily hold twelve persons. The t<-t-vl weight is 200,000 kilos, and the entire work represents an outlay of more than a million ftanos*
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Grey River Argus, Volume XXXI, Issue 5297, 18 September 1885, Page 4
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222THE WORLD'S GREAT STATUES COMPARED. Grey River Argus, Volume XXXI, Issue 5297, 18 September 1885, Page 4
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