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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1908 Excerpt: ...when it is necessary to move the ladder over a ridge into the next interspace. Four men are required for this operation: two at the bottom, one at the top, and one in the middle. The middle one sits astride one of the bosses in the roof, between the ridges, holding on only by his legs, reaches over to the ladder, and lifts it (aided by the others) over on the top of him. Then he worms himself out from under it, and it is lashed in place again. The Goddess of Liberty is twenty feet high, built of bronze, polished or rough-finished in places as is suitable, and weighs nineteen thousand pounds. Not even her importance saves her from the elements, and she has to be scrubbed once in so often to keep her from falling to ruin. The last time this was done she was found to be covered from crown to foot with great scales of oxidized bronze, and to bear on her person the marks of more than a hundred strokes of lightning that had hit her since her last tubbing. All seven of the lightning-rods on her shoulders and in her crown were completely burned away. The hardest thing to reach is the Indian head-dress the goddess wears instead of a cap. President Jefferson is responsible for this bonnet. He was at the helm of state when the goddess was cast, and he objected to the familiar liberty-cap. "The liberty-cap," he said, "was the symbol of freedmen, not of freemen. When a Eoman slave became free he assumed the cap. It has no place in the heraldry of men who were born free. We will have none of it." As there was no head-dress so very American as the Indian feather bonnet, the goddess was fitted out with one and placed on high to show the nations of the world what this young country could do when it really tried. If the goddess was mortified over this mix...


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  • ISBN-13: 9781231054437
  • Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Publisher Imprint: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 76
  • Spine Width: 4 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1231054433
  • Publisher Date: 01 May 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 154 gr

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