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Excerpt from The Seven Wonders of the World: With Their Associations in Art and History The association of ideas that will necessarily arise in contemplating these wondrous works of past ages, leads to the notice of other fabrics of a similar kind of after-times, as well as to those of our own day'; as the more remarkable mausoleums or memorials of. The great and the brave - the Pyramids of India and Mexico - and those vast mounds of similar form in other parts of the globe; and in connection with the Pharos that originated a name for such structures, the Pharos of the Emperor Claudius at Ostia; among others of modern date, the superb one at Cordouan; andespecially, we may refer with pride to those paragons of engineering triumph Over natural obsta cles, - the light-houses on the Eddystone, and the Bell Rock. 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.