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One of the machines. It is straddling one of the old pieces of stone that was restored by Nicholas Balanos around 1898. His method of using iron to keep the building together is the cause of many of the monument's problems. The iron oxidized and expanded and split the stone. Some say had he just left it as it was and done nothing it would be in a lot better shape today.

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