38 HAND-BOOK OF WASHINGTON. the lately completed colossal group of Statuary, called Civilization, executed by the lamented Greenough. It was finished in 1851, and occu pied the artist eight years, besides a delay of four years, occasioned by his not being able in all that time to obtain a block of Serravezza marble suit able to his purpose. It consists of four figure*, a mother and child, an American Indian and the father. The object of this group is to illustrate a phase in the progress of American Civilization, viz : the unavoidable conflict between the An«-lo- O Saxon and aboriginal savage races. The group of statuary placed in the pediment •of the portico on the east front of the north wing of the Capitol was designed by the late Mr. Craw ford, the American sculptor. This statuary was executed on the Capitol grounds by artists em ployed on the Capitol extension. The whole group represents “America as it was and as it is.” Facing the statuary, that por tion on the right of: the central figure exhibits “ America as it was;” that on the left “America as it is.” The central figure represents the Goddess of Liberty. The first figure to the right of her in