GIGANTIC STATUARY
The White Horse at Bratton Down, which it is proposed to .scour alrosh. is one of Britain’s biggest chalk-carvings, measuring 170 ft by IdOft, but it will he put very much in the shade when (he hill-sculpture now being made at Stone Mountain, Georgia, is completed. This is a statuary group of General Robert K. Lee at the head of his troops, and when finished will show over a thousand bas-relief figures ol gigantic size. The head of General Lee’s horse, for example, will be otllt long, .some twenty-live times life-size, and a man will he able to stand upright in one of its nostrils. The monument will be practically everlasting, for the clidface whereon it is being carved is ol hard granite.
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Lake Wakatip Mail, Issue 3717, 2 November 1926, Page 2
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125GIGANTIC STATUARY Lake Wakatip Mail, Issue 3717, 2 November 1926, Page 2
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