REMARKABLE WORKS OF HUMAN LABOR.
Nineveh was 16 milea long, 8 milea wide and 46 miles round, with a wall 100 feet high, and thick enough for three chariots abreast. Babylon was 50 miles within the walls, which were 74 feet thick, and 100 feet high ■with 190 brazen gates. The Temple of Diana, at Ephesus, was 420 feet to the support of the roof. It was 100 years in building. The largest of the Pyramids is 481 feet in height, and 953 feet on the sides ; the base covers 11 acres ; the stones are about f - -60 feet in length, and the layers 208 feet. Ptt' 'employed 320,000 men in the building. " The Labyrinths in Egypt contained 300 chambers and 12 halls. Thebes, in Egypt, presents ruins 27 miles round, and 100 gates. Carthage was 29 miles round. Athens was 25 miles round, and contained 350,000 citizens, and 400,000 slaves. The Temple of Delphos was so rich in donations that it w>s plundered of £10,000,000 and 200 statues.
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Grey River Argus, Volume XXXII, Issue 5350, 21 November 1885, Page 4
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169REMARKABLE WORKS OF HUMAN LABOR. Grey River Argus, Volume XXXII, Issue 5350, 21 November 1885, Page 4
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