Excerpt from The Seven Wonders of the World: With Their Associations in Art and History<br><br>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.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>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.