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Show [ 30 1 Mafons and Engravers of thofe Times, viz. the Baft-fide by Scopas, the'Weft by Leochares, the North by Briax, and th" South by Timor he us. Ithly, T h e Tower of Pharos, the fifth of the feven Wonders of the World, built by Ptclcmeus PhikkU fhus, King of Egypt, who was an excellent Architect, on an Ifland near""Alexandria, at one of the Mouths of the Nik, of wonderful Height, and rnoft cunning Workmanfi ip, and all of the flneft Marble, and it cop %oo Talents, or about 480,000 Crowns. The Matter cf AVork under the Kjng was Siftratus, a rnoft ingenious Mafon ^ and it was afterwards much admir'd by Jid'm Qefar, who was a good Judge of rnoft Things,, tho' chiefly conyerfantin\Var and Politicks. It was intended as a I Ight-houfe for the Harbour of Alexandria, from which the Light-houfes in the Mediterranean were often call'd Pharos. Tho' fome, inftead of this, mention, as the fifth Wonder, the great Obelisk of Semiramis, 150 Eoothigh, and 24 Foot fquareat Bottom, or 90 Foot in Circuit at the Ground, all one intire Stone, rising Pyra midically, brought from Armenia to Babylon, about the Time of the Siege of Troy, if w e may believe the Hi-ftoryof Semir amis. %thly, It fhould not be forgot that Painters alfo, and Statuaries, were always reckond good M A S O N S , as much as Builders, Stone-cutters, Bricklayers, Carpenters, Joiners, Upholders or Tent-makers, and a vaft many other Craftfmen that could be nam'd, who perform according to Geometry, and the Rules of Building} for it was not without good Reafon the Ancients thought that the Rules of the beautiful Proportions in Building were copied, or taken from the Proportions of the Body natural. Hence ^Phidias is reckon'd in the Number of ancient MASONS, for erecting the Statue of the Goddefs Nemefis at Rhatn-nus, 1 o Cubits high 5 and that of Minerva at Athens 16 Cubits high ; and that of Jupiter Olympius, fitting in his Temple in Achat a, between the Cities of Eli s and Pity |