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Die Pompejus-Säule
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Miscell. Subj. XCIV. Vol. VI. No. 39., THE COLUMN OF POMPEIUS., About half a league from the walls of the according to the neweft french meafuremeni, modern city of Alexandria in Egypt one amounts altogether to 88 Parifian feet, 6 inmeets with the remarkable column here re- ches. The height of the column itielf exceeds prefented, of reddifh granite, the highest lomething 63 feet, and the diameter of it hitherto known. Therefore the Arabians amounts to 8 feet, 4 inches. The CoiinthiTti calFd it the column of columns. Likely it chapiter is adorn'd with fleek foliage. To has been in more ancient times furrounded the upper plinth leverai travellers have climby other columns, with which it belonged to bed up, in order to meafure the column; a grand building of parade. and in the year 1733 eight Englifhmen emptied upon it for fport's fake a bowl of Punch. This magnificent column of granite con- Why the column carries the name of Pomfilts of three pieces, de chapiter, the column peius, we don't know, fince to his memory itself, and the pedefial, the height of which, it has not been erected.
