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Scientific American, Vol. 55, No. 24 (1886) (1886)

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At last they have which there are a few scattered about in Afghanistan, been drawn and measured in a manner that can be de- ing of all the colossal statues of the world could be have also their own legends regarding them. All won- pended upon ; this isone of the many important results brought… … in height as he had to look up 53 ft.—at the lowest esti- Bamian is on the road between: Cabul and Balkh, mate—to the gigantic strangers from Bamian. The where it crosses the Paropamisus range. The situation COMPARATIVE HEIGHT OF FAMOUS STATUES, new “ Liberty ” statue at New York is 111 ft. high,…

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