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Show Homo IteunilWrtble lpHUtf. Nineveh was It miles long, 8mIleswido and 40 milea around, with n wall 100 feet high and thick cnongh for tlirco chariots abreast. Ilabylon was H) miles within tho walls, which wcro 75 feet high, with 100 brazen gates. The groat pyramid Is 481 feet high and rMfcet on tho sides. Tho baso covers 11 ucres of ground. Many ot tho stones aro 00 foot lh length, nnd tho layers nro SOS In number. Eminent historians say that 350,-000 350,-000 men wcro employed in bulldlrrg It. Thebes, of anclont Egypt, haslkVl.OOO dtl-tens dtl-tens and 400,000 slaves. Tho ruins of the ty, even at this l.ito date, nro 69 miles In enmforrtue r , |