COLOSSUS

is the kind of statuary in which the Asiatics, Egyptians, and especially the Greeks excelled. The most famous Egyptian colo us was the statue of Memnon, in the plain of Thebes, supposed to be identical with one now standing on the west bank of the Nile. The most celebrated Grecian colo us was the Colo us of Bhodes, a bra statue of Apollo, 70 cubits high, esteemed one of the wonders of the world, which was erected at the port of Rhodes by Chares about 290 B.C. It was destroyed by an earthquake about 224 B.C. The most famous Roman colo i were the Jupiter of the Capitol, Apollo of the Palatine Library and the statue of Aero. Bartholdi’s statue of Liberty,, given to the United States, measures 104 ft., and having been erected at New York harbour on a pedestal 114 ft. high, is constructed for a lighthouse with one of the most powerful forced lights in the world.