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Show [ n 1 Columns, and was a wonderful Diicovery of their gfeiBt Skill in true Mafonry. By Means of theie Columns the glorious Sampfon puiTd down the Temple upon the Lords of the Philiftines, and was alio intangled in the fame Death which he drew upon his Enemies for putting out his Eyes, after he had reveaPd his Secrets to his Wife> that betrayed him into their Hands 5 for which Weak-nefs he never had the Honour to be numbred among MASONS. 4. The Temple of Diana at Ephefus, which, tho' it is fuppos'd to have been firft built by iome of Japhefs Posterity, that made a Settlement in Jonia about the Time ot Mofes j yet it was often demo Hiked, and then rebuilt for the Sake of Improvements in M A S O N R Y :, and we cannot compute the Period of its laft glorious Erection ; (that became one of the feven Wonders 01 the World J tiy be prior to that of Solomon's Temple 3 but that long afterwards the Kings of Lejfer Afia join'd, for 220 Years> in finifhing it, with 107 Columns of the flneft Marble and many of them with rnoft exquisite Sculpture (e | at the Expence of a King, by the Mafter-Mafon's Dnj. [ phon and Archiphrori) to fupport the planked Cklin** ! and Roof of pure Cedar, as the Doors and Linings weyc of Cyprefs: Whereby it became the Miftrcis of I-cfer Afia in Length 425 Foot, and in Breadth 220 Poor : Nay, fo admirable a Fabrick, that Xerces left it standing when he burnt all the other Temples in his /Way to Greece, tho' only for the Luft of being talk'd of, on the very Day that Alexander the Great was born., Sthly, The Grand Monarch Ncbuthadnezzar,by'llc)^ of the~ingenious Artists of Judca, and. other Captives, rais'd the greatest Work upon Earth, viz. the City, Temple, and Walls of Bafaten, &c. which Walls were in Thicknefs 87 Foot, in Height 35c, and in Compafs 480 Furlongs, or 60 Britifh Miles, in an exact Squareof 15 Miles a Side, built of large Bricks, cemented with the hard Bitumen of that old Vale of Shinar, with 100 £ 2, GdXca |