THE SEVEN RULES FOR SPELLING WONDERS OF THE ANCIENT WORLD Werds ending in ¢ drop that letter before the termination oblo, ig move, movable, unless ending im ca or ge, when it ig retained, im change, changeable, ete. The Pyramids ef Egypt and the Sekine ane situated elose te the west bamk ef the Nile River nearly epposite Caire, and were built between 4731 B.C, and 4454 B.C. Werds of one syllable ending im a consonant, with a single vowel before it double that consonant im derivatives, as ship, shipping, ete. Bust if onding in a consonant with a double vowel befere it, they de act double the consonant in derivatives; as troop, trooper, etc. The pyramids were reyal tombs, the largest being Cheops, 461 feet high, 746 feet square at the base and covering 12 acres of ground, The Sphinx, hewn of solid rock, has the head ef a mam and the ereushing body of @ lism. It is 146 feet long and 160 fees te the tep of the kead. The im the Hanging Gardens of Babylea-—were near palace of King Nebuchadnezzar, 60 miles Words date from about 600 B.C. The Temple of Diana—at now vanished city, was built Ephesus im Asia Minor, an ancient but in the Fifth Ceatury, B.C., by the lenian All The Statue of miles inland from was the begum in 432 draperies the B.C. by Sea The Artemisia interior. Phares of to the Alexandria. im the upper 136 tens. ia mainland encrusted with iveey and gold. Greece, It was of marble and in Asia Minor Ie was was built remarkable destroyed Alexandris—a sewer om the island of completed im 285 B.C. Great It was of beaten opposite Quesn magnificent B.C. ef Mausolus—waes Aegean about Jupiter Olympws—in the valley ef Olympia, 12 the west coast of the southern peniasula of Greece, were The Tomb weighing on the Eastern side of of marble for its abewt beauty by an earthquake. white marble Lighthouse ef wateh Phares, in the pert of Alexandria, Egypt, The island had been jeined by Alexander of Egypt by 353 aad « causeway Fires were used as a beacem part ef the tower. by night when he and were a founded ki The Colossus of Rhodes-—was a brase status of the Greck sun-ged Apollo, about 169 feet high and was erected at the port of the City ef Rhodes om the Island of Rhodes im ths eastern part ef the Mediterrancan Sea morth ef Alexandria. It took 12 years to build, wat completed about 28@ B.C. and was thrown down 224 B.C. by as earthquake. There it lay for nearly 1000 years, until 672 A.D. whe the Turkish Government seld it to a mas who broke huge brass image into pieces amd took them back Mesepotamia leaded am the backs of 760 camels. and pulled th with his imte words it, have cities as a joint monument. The building was of marble, 425 feet by 225 feet amd the roof was supported by 127 columas of Pariaa marble, each 60 feet high and each $56 B.C., the temple was destroyed, of more than one ayllable ending im a consonant preceded by « single vowel, and accented om the last syllable, dowble that consonant im derivatives; as commit, committed; but except chagria, ehagrined. All words of one syllable ending in J, with a single vewel before it, have double JI at the slose; as mili, sell. the Zuphrates River south ef the present sity of Bagdad. ‘The terraced gardene planted with flowers and small erees and with fountains were 75 te 300 fees above the growad. They a2 as _ of only one one syllable / at the ending close in §, with as mail, a double weews tm >”- sail, The words foretell, distill, inetill and fulfill xwomm wee ews sw 9 ow their primitives. Derivatives of dull, skill, will aad full alse retaim the ji whem the accent falls om these words; eas dullmess, skiliful, willful, fullness. Words of more than one syllable clese; as delightful, faithful; syllable; as im befall, ete. Words ending in |, double ending unless that the letter in | have accent in the falls only ome ! as om the lant terminawox »+,. Participles ending im ing, from verbs ending im ¢, lese the final s; as have, having, make, making, etc., but verbe ending im e¢ retaum both; see, seeing. Dye, to coler, and singe, te scerch, however, must retain All the ¢ before adverbs ing. ending in ly and nouns ending final of the primitives; as brave, bravely; words ending im ge; as judge, judgment. in men? refine, retain refinement; the Nouns ending in y, preceded by a vowel, form their plural by img sj as money, moneys; but if y is preceded by a semsomant changed te jes in the plural; as bounty, bounties. Werds bea wtiful, whose primitives ond in y change the y into 4, a¢ e exeept addit fe beauty,