The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1901-10-24


Egypt. it is known that they were also
astronomical observatories. These mar
wells of architecture We're built 1000 b.
c. ON either bank of the Nile for hun
dreds of miles are temples. palaces and
tombs, the yastness OF whose ruins
proves that a mighty civilization exist
cd upon the earth at a time when the
Perslans and Greeks herded their fioeks
on the shore OF the Caspian Sea.
The Pyramids are undoubtedly the
most stupendous work Of man, and the
Palace Of Karnak Is not much Inferior.
1t covers two hundred and seventy
acres, and in the Hall OF Columns there
are pillars, high as the tallest trees,
surmounted by capitals on which one
hundred men could stand without
crowding.
1t may be noticed that In no other
country have architects had such scope
for their vast ideas as In Egypt, because
in no other country has human life ever
been held so cheaply. For twenty years
one hundred thousand men toiled on
the Pyramids, and millions OF lives
have been sacrificed to erect the won
derful temples and palaces over whose
ruins we sigh to-day. The ancient cities
of Babylon and Nlneyeh. although not
built of enduring stone, We're triumphs
of architectural power. Who can pic
ture to themselves Nineyeh, with Its
wall sixty miles IN circumference, and
one hundred feet high, studded with
fifteen hundred towers, each two hun
dred feet high? or Babylon. greater
still, with its hundred brazen gates, its
walls three hundred and ninety feet
high and ninety-eight feet thick? Jose
plus. who saw the temple of Jerusalem
in all its glory, describes Is as a marvel
of architecture. 1t was built by Solo
mon 1000 r. c.; was world renowned,
and yet to.7lay.its very site is unknown.
Some wonderful. architects must. have
flourished in auoieHt.times in India, II
we may Judge. by the colossal ruins and
tire remaining Ipopuments of their skill.
A. single illustration VIII suffice. The
fiii Dlf VI iAdiiuSd 10 an
ing, three hundred and forty feet long,
one hundred and ninety-fiye feet wide.
and rising to the height of one hundred
feet. 1t is Or stone. Bur not put togeth-
er in the 'hsifal'way. II iS'nfads out of
single isolated rock hsllowrd within
and carved without. and contains halls,
galleries. rooms and statues In profu-
SION There is. no other. building Ike
Il in the world.
The Greeks were wonderful archl-
tects. and left behind them. as legacies
of greatness the Acrop6lls With Its
beautiful TEMPLES, ana the Temple of
Diana, at Ephesus, which was one of
the seven wonders of the ancient world
Rome borrowed her chief architectural
ideas from the Etruscans and Greeks.
but improved on them In masslyeness.
The most imposing and the most endur.
ing of these architectural inarvdis Is
the Colosseum, built by Titus about "a
\. u. The building covers n space of
sixty-five thousand square feet and
when complete accommodated. ninety
thousand spectators.
In China the Great Wall will at once
occur to tie reader. but that was an
engineering feat and displays no archl.
tectural sklll.E The famous Porcelain
Tower, three hundred and, fifty fee,
high, was wonderful building and tlie
only one of its,klnd. 1t Is no longer in
existence, having been destroyed by the
TAPPING rebels. America has no dis
: tinet style of architecture and Eiiglaud
is not much better off. Human life1s
dear, and.although we could no doubt
build a higher pyramid than Cheops, II
we wanted to, we don't want to. italy
/ contains three marvels ofuarchitecturf
at the present day in the shape of Loan,
ing towers that will continue to attract
for many years the wonder and ddmira
ton of travellers.
Near the exchange In Bologna is a
large space from which four street.
branch off to the principal gates. Thi.
space contains two leaning towers. TIL.
tower of AsiDelll is two hundred ant
seyenty-two feet high and has a defiecc
4 tfon7of-five feet from the perpendicular
I and its companion, the Tower of CARTS
i 6uda, is one hundred and thirty -elgfr
feet high and has a DETECTION OF min,
feet from the perpendicular. Thes,
towers are both plain structures, devoit
of architectural beauty, and at a dis
lance look to the American visitor llk,
factory ehimneys. The same reproacl
cannot apply to the famous leaning