" They saw his ship and her small consort sweep undestroyed over the dead-line, the Brooklyn follow with hers, the Mobile gunboats rake the four with a fire they could not return, and behind them Fort Morgan and the other ships rend and shatter each other, shroud the air with smoke and thresh the waters white with shot and shell, shrapnel, canister and grape.

The vestibule has brought the builder more fame, and has proved more enduring, than the temple: of the latter only the ruins remain; the former has remained undestroyed through the centuries.

This statue, removed to Constantinople by Theodosius the Great, remained undestroyed until the year 475 A.D. Phidias also executed various other works,all famous in his day,which have, however, perished; but many executed under his superintendence still remain, and are universally admired for their grace and majesty of form.