Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 June 1886 — The World’s Seven Wonders. [ARTICLE]

The World’s Seven Wonders.

The hanging gardens at Babylon were 75 feet high, built on seven tiers of arches, one over the other. The top was covered with earth, in which Howers and even large trees had been planted. Water was supplied by aqueducts from the river Euphrates. The Pharos at Alexandria, erected by the arehiteet Sostratus, under the reign of Ptolmy Philadelphus, B. C. 332 r was the first lighthouse on record, and, according to Josephus, the light could be seen for fully forty English miles. Wood fires were used instead of lamps. The Olympian Zeus, a statue of Jupiter at Olympia, the work of Phidias, 55 feet in height, was made of ivory and gold. It represented the father of gods seated on a Throne. i.— - The temple of Diana at Ephesus will be remembered by all Bible readers. It was 425 feet long, 225 feet broad, and supported by 127 columns of Parian marble, each 60 feet high. • ■ The (polossus of Rhodes was an eriormous brass statue of the sun god, Apollo. It rested over the entrance of the harbor, all ships passing between its brazen legs.' It was built 280 years before Christ, and thrown down by an earthquake.. The next one also shared the same fate. The Mausoleum was a magnificent tomb. erected by Artemissia, to bury her husband, Mausolus, King of Caria. It stood for many centuries, and its foundations could still be traced in 1856. The pyramids of Egypt are the most wonderful of all the seven wonders, and so well known that we can in our brief space add nothing of interest.