The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1881-04-22
The WORLDS Seven Wonders.

me seven wonders of the world are:
Inc yfamids, the Colossus of Rhodes,
Dlana5 Temple at Ephesus, the Pharos
OF hIeAandria, the Hanging Gardens at
Bapy ION the Statue of the Oiympian
JoFe, ana the Mausoleum by Artemisia
at fiAlcarnassUs. The Pyramids are
numerous, and space forbids anything
like even list of them. The great piles
were constructed of blocks of red or
/ syeaitic granite, and of hard calcareous
/ stone. These blocks were of extraordi-
nary dimensions, and their transporta-
TONIC the sites of the pyramids and their
/ adlastafnt IN their places, indicate o
Surprising degree of mechanical skill.
The Great Pyramid covers an area of be-
| tween tEelye and thirteen acres. The
masoIsrF consisted originally of SO. .02s, =
! 003 Gas Hsxt re.at.- nDft ntit amounts to
adont 81, III 900 feet. The present vef-
ticsl height is 45O feet, against 479 feet
ORIGINALLY, and the present length of the
sidess TAG feet, against 764 feet origi
nallv. The total weight of the stone is
estimated mt 6,3l6, 900, 600 tons The
city OF Rhodes vas besieged by Deme-
trius Peliorcetcs, King of Macedon, but,
aided by Ptolomy Softer, King of Egypt,
the enemy were repulsed. To express
their cratitude TO their allies and to the
tutelarv deity, they erected o brazen
statue 10 Apollo. 1t was los feet high,
aud hollow. with q Winding staircase that
ascended to the head. After stan ding
tifty-six wears. II vas overthrown by an
earthouakc. pa yeifs before Christ, and
Law nine centuries on the ground, and
then was sold to a Jew by the Saracens,
who had captured Rhodes, about the
middle Of the seventeenth century. 1t Is
said 10 have required 900 camels 10 re-
move the metal and from this statement
ii has been calculated its weight was
72O. 900 pounds. The Temple of Diana
mt Enhesus was built at the common
charge Of all the Asiatic States The
chief architect was Chersiphon, and Pliny
saws Tint 900 wears were employed in
completing the temple; whose riches
were immense. 1t was 425 feet long, 22J
broad, md was supported by 127 col
umns of Parian marble (sixty feet high,
each weiehing 100 tous}, furnished by
as many hngs. 1t was set on fire on the
night Of llexander's birth by an obscure
person named Erostratus, who confessed
on the rGk that the sole motive which
prompted him was the desire to transmit
his namt TO future ages. The temple
was again built, and once more burned
by the Goths in their naval invasion A .
d. 25G. The Pharos of Alexandria and
the Handng Gardens were described re-
Gently. The colossal statue OF. Jupiter
in the temple Of Olympia, at Els, was
by Phidhs. II was in gold and ivory,
and sat erthroned in the temple for 500
years, and was finally destroyed by fire
about \. \. 475. From the best inform
alton it is believed that the Mausoleum at
HoicamaSus was n rectangular build
ing surrounded by an Ionic portico Of
thirty SIX columns, and smmounted by
a pyramid, rising In twenty four steps,
upon the sammit Of which was d colossal
marble -qnadtiga with n statue Of Mauso-
lus. Ilus magnificent structhre was
rfectt s.e1aaas-s.ns was the sister
wife. and Successor of MausOIus =