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Show [ s* J W d c of innumerable fmall Pieces of Porphyry, fb exceeding grand and proportion'd, that it was reckon'd one' of the feven Wonders 5 as the famous Coloffus at Rhodes •was another, and the greatest Statue that ever was erected, made of Metal, and dedicated to the Sun, 70 Cubits high, like a great Tower at a Distance, at the Entry of an Harbour, finding wide enough for the largest Ships under Sail, built in twelve Years by Cares, a fimousMalort and Statuary of Sicyon, and Scholar to the great Lyfippus of the fame Fraternity. This mightyColoffus, after ftanding 5^ Years, fell by an Earthquake, and lay in Ruines, the Wonder of the World, • 'till Anno Dom. 600, when the Soldan of Egypt carried off its Relicts, which loaded 900 Camels. It would require a large Volumn, to give a Defcription \ of the many glorious Fabricks that have been, and are ::now, infeveral Parts of the World, wherefore 1 jhahV 1 content myfelf with giving a fhort Account only of fome of the principal ones that adorn this Kingdom. 1 (I, T h e Banqueting Houfe at Whitehall, which is the finest one Room upon Earth, conducted by the admi- : rablc Inigo Jones, that great Reviver of the Auguftan- Stile in England, under the Patronage of King James L who built it as a Part of that Superb Palace which he-had propos'd. The Plan and Proipeft of that glorious- Defign being ftill preferv'd, iris efteem'd, by skilful Architects, to excel that of any other Palace in the known* Earth, for the Symmetry, Firmnefs, Beauty, and Con-veniency of Architecture, as indeed all Mr. Jones's Defigns and Erections are Originals, and at firft View dii-cover him to be the Architect: Nay, his mighty Genius prevail'd with the Nobility and Gentry of all Britain (for he was as much honour'd in Scotland as in England) to affect and revive the ancient Stile of M A S O N R Y , too long neglefted, as appears by the many curious Fabricks of thofe Times, one of which fhall be now mention d, thcleaft, and perhaps one of the fineft* T h e famous Gate .... u.yi«i.u utP.iv,a-&^ J |