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Excerpt from The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World The editor of a, monthly periodical once desired a short article on the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. To write it seemed an easy task, for long wanderings in the Orient had led me to the sites of several of these ancient marvels, yet when I attempted to name them, I could not. Dismayed at my ignorance, I asked my learned friends to name them; they succeeded no better. I consulted the encyclopædias only to find that some of the ancient wonders were not considered worthy of a brief descriptive paragraph; the information given of others was meagre and antiquated. Confident that scores of authors must have been inspired to write books about them, I searched through the largest of the libraries. The discovery of two books was the reward. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.