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[Illustration: COLUMBUS MONUMENT, PIAZZA ACQUAVERDE, GENOA, ITALY.

Sculptor, Signor Lanzio. Dedicated 1862.

(See page 141.)]




  CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS

  AND HIS MONUMENT

  COLUMBIA

  BEING

  A CONCORDANCE OF CHOICE TRIBUTES TO THE GREAT GENOESE, HIS GRAND
  DISCOVERY, AND HIS GREATNESS OF MIND AND PURPOSE.


  _THE TESTIMONY OF ANCIENT AUTHORS, THE TRIBUTES OF MODERN MEN._

  ADORNED WITH THE SCULPTURES, SCENES, AND PORTRAITS OF THE OLD WORLD AND
  THE NEW.

  COMPILED BY J. M. DICKEY.


  CHICAGO AND NEW YORK: RAND, MCNALLY & COMPANY, PUBLISHERS. 1892.
  COPYRIGHT, 1892, BY RAND, MCNALLY & CO.
  Columbus.




PREFACE.


History places in prominence Columbus and America. They are the
brightest jewels in her crown. Columbus is a permanent orb in the
progress of civilization. From the highest rung of the ladder of fame,
he has stepped to the skies. America "still hangs blossoming in the
garden of time, while her penetrating perfume floats all round the
world, and intoxicates all other nations with the hope of liberty." If
possible, these tributes would add somewhat to the luster of fame which
already encircles the Nation and the Man. Many voices here speak for
themselves.

Six hundred authors and more have written of Columbus or his great
discovery. An endless task therefore would it be to attempt to
enumerate,