Show Cleopatra's Needles Cleopatra's Nee Needle le in Central Centra park parle New York city Is 07 OJ feet high to the apex and 7 feet 7 inches In diameter at the base Th The two famous fatuous nee needles les of Cleopatra were first erected b by III I at and were ere In Ptolemaic I times transported to Alexandria One was taken talen thence to London in an and the other to New York Yurl b by the ship i the dIrection direction direction di dI- of Commander Gor- Gor rings lags U. U S. S N N. at the expense or of William H. H Vanderbilt in ISSO 1880 It was w-as erected In Central park February February al' al ary 22 2 1881 |