. The history of our country from its discovery by Columbus to the celebration of the centennial anniversary of its declaration of independence ... , Government, leather,carriage, and photograph buildings, an additional art building and proposedannexes to the machinery and agricultural buildings will occupy at leastfourteen acres, and together with stock-yards, improvements, bridges, etc.,will probably cost $2,250,000 more. So that the total space covered bythe principal Exhibition Buildings will be more than sixty-two acres,—twelve acres more than the space covered by the buildings of the her
. The history of our country from its discovery by Columbus to the celebration of the centennial anniversary of its declaration of independence ... , Government, leather,carriage, and photograph buildings, an additional art building and proposedannexes to the machinery and agricultural buildings will occupy at leastfourteen acres, and together with stock-yards, improvements, bridges, etc.,will probably cost $2,250,000 more. So that the total space covered bythe principal Exhibition Buildings will be more than sixty-two acres,—twelve acres more than the space covered by the buildings of the heretoforelargest fair, at Vienna ; and the cost of the buildings will be considerablyless altogether than the cost of the Vienna buildings. A writer in the New York World, for February 14, 1876, before theopening of the Exhibition, draws this glowing picture of what was to be ex-pected. Great Britain and nearly all her colonies, France and hers,—in fact, all the Euro-jcan nations but one,—.several Asiatic and African states, and most of the South Amer-ican countries are represented here by their agents, and will contribute to the Exhibi-. 624 APPENDIX. tion. To swell the enormous aud as we sluill see uiipreeedeiited show will come offerin<,^sof gold, and ivory, and gums, from torrid Barbary, and furs and feathers from Norwayin tlie north. Egyi)t, now ruled by a great Khedive, has gathered togetlier her relics ofa civilization forerunning by thousands of years the birth of tlie Saviour of the modernworld, and sends them across the Atlantic in company with specimens of products, —such as tobacco, sugar-cane, indigo, and cotton, — the culture whereof has long replacedthat of the papyrus in regions inundated by old Nile. In the unopened boxes whichhave been received from Cairo are said to be transcendent antiques excavated fromAbousanibul, Alexandria, aud Memphis. The Obelisk and the Pyramids have given upparts of themselves for transportation hither, aud several objects
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