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Title: The American encyclopedia of history, biography and travel
Year: 1857 (1850s)
Authors: (Blake, William O.) (from old catalog)
Subjects: World history Biography
Publisher: Columbus, Published by J. & H. Miller
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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om thecelebrated Thorwalsden, who was then passing through Florence. Heexpressed himself in terms of high admiration of the artists busts; and,in reference to these, declared Powers to be the greatest sculptor sinceMichael Angelo. The statue of Eve also excited his admiration: andto the artists apology that it was his first statue, he replied that any manmight well be proud of it, as his last. When the model of Eve wascompleted, he began the Greek Slave, which was finished in eight months.This, the best known and most admired of all Mr. Powers works, hasbeen exhibited throughout the United States, and at the Great Exhibitionat London. There are two copies in existence besides the original, one ofwhich recently formed one of the prizes distributed by the Western Art-Union. Among some of his finest works are portraits of Jackson, Web-ster, Adams, Calhoun, Chief-Justice Marshall and many persons of less em-inence. He has also produced some ideal busts; the Proserpine is oneof the finest.
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DEPARTMENT OF TRAVEL. HISTORICAL SKETCH OP NAVAL ARCHITECTURE. From the semi-barbarous epoch of the middle ages to the present cen-tury, which has seen the birth of steam navigation, the form and rig ofvessels have undergone many modifications. We are about to give a rapidhistorical sketch of these, quoting, as far as possible, those types of navalarchitecture celebrated in preceding centuries. Still, we are hardly per-mitted to go back farther than the ninth century, where we find some cer-tain ideas respecting the Scandinavian vessels. Before this period all isconfusion, and leaves us full of uncertainty. We know well that theancient Trireme gave birth to a sort of row-galleys known in the fifth cen-tury by the name of Dromons ; but we have no positive details respectingthe precise form of these vessels. In the sixth century, the EmperorMaurice, in a treatise on the military art, spoke of them as vessels partic-ularly contrived for battle. Three hundred years later, the Emperor Leo,

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