34 HAND-BOOK OF WASHINGTON. THE OLD HALL OF REPRESENTATIVES Is in the second story leading to the south wing, of a semicircular form ninety-six feet long and sixty feet high, and surrounded with twenty- four columns of variegated Potomac marble'with capitals of white Italian of the CorinthiaD order. The dome is painted in imitation of that of the Pantheon of Rome, and just below the dome, under a sweeping areh extending from east to west, is placed a model of a colossal figure of liberty in plaster by Causica. On the entablature beneath the figure is sculptured in stone the American eagle, in the act of taking wing, exe cuted by Valaperti. Immediately over the main entrance stands a statue in marble representing History recording the events of the nation. She is placed on a winged car, rolling around a globe, on which are delineated the signs of the Zodiac, and the wheel of the car is the face of the clock THE NEW DOME. The old Dome of the Capitol was built of wood. The outer and inner shells were not concentric, and while the inner was, in proportions, a copy