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Show Tha Calellnl t RhoJtt. The anclenta aucccedcd In making Hint alloy of copper which la known m I ronre Ataei g the aven wonders of the world wna tlm fainoua statue wholly whol-ly made of b-uie blAtorlcnlly known as tho t'oicmia of ltliode It rej repented re-pented riiibu, Ih" nnllonat deity of the Hhodians, It wnaliegiiii ly Cliaren n pupil nl Ijflppm, the pcutftor, nnd whs completed by IjicIim, VS3 jeirs II U Tim popular belief It Hut It Mood alrlle tho harbor ot llliodc, Hint It was 101 feet high, and tlmt ship conl 1 easily salt Intwccn lis leg l'lluy Mil that fiw men cullclap lis thumb It was nut 1111 iiiiIaI blc, atlerward joined together, an 1 this pnWvM oci nplcd twrtro years, lathe Interior wus a pj Iral ulalnuno rcnclilng Into lis head, nn 1 In n great mirror aurpenlnl to lis mik, wcro rcllecteil tho coast of HjrU an 1 the flilps tailing to i nypt Alter It liad stood for rlity four ears this Colnus was niertlirown by nn earthquake, an 1 Its roiualos lay on tho rhi ro for O.'l eirs-that Is until A I) 1 7J when they wrro sol 1 by tho Ham rens to n Hebrew dealer The original. crt wna TOO talcnts-auy Sil,0W,000 3 and It Is not too much to say tlmt a r-hnlLir Imago might easily lio con stmcted now In cm fourth of the time ami at ciir-thlrtl of tho original cot Khnde, by tlm way, limit huo ha I (ViIomiis on tlio brain, for l'lluy rtlates that the port was nlornril Willi 1,000 rolovat statues of H10 sun Thomas J, Llowdltch In Troy 'limes. |
