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Show SOME FACTS AND FIGURES The Statue of Liberty weighs 450,-000 450,-000 pounds or 225 tons; the bronze alone weighs 200,000 pounds. Forty persons can stand comfortably in the head, and the torch will hold 12 people The numb.er of steps from the base of the foundation to the top of the torch is 403; from the ground to the top of the pedestal, 195 steps. The number of steps in the statue from the pedestal to the head is 154, and the ladder leading up through the extended ex-tended right arm to the torch has 54 rounds. The goddess, so far as shape is concerned, con-cerned, is almost "a perfect thirty-six." thirty-six." The thickness of her waist not around, but through is exactly 35 feet. The total height from water level to the top of llie torch is 301 feet and 3 inches. From the water level to the top of the pedestal is 149 feet 10 inches. The height of the statue proper is 151 feet 5 inches. The length of the figure from heel I to crown of head is 111 feet 6 inches. The hands are 16 feet 5 inches in length. The index finger is" eight feet long. The circumference of this finger at the second joint is seven and a half feet. The index fingernail finger-nail is 10 by 13 inches. The face is 17 feet 3 inches from chin to top of forehead. The thickness of the head, from ear to ear, is an even ten feet. The distance between the eyes hs two and a half feet. The right !irm is 42 feet long. The greatest thickness of this arm is 12 feet. The mouth is three feet wide. |