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On the North side stands a tower of an octangular form, supporting the spire. This tower consists, as it were, but of strong buttresses adorned with small columns and sta- tues, and having large apertures in which very high win- dows are set and take nearly the whole breadth on the four sides, where they are. Among the statues that face the plat- form, one must be noticed as being, according to tradition, Digitized by VjOOQ IC OF THE CATHEDRAL OF STRASBURG. 23 (bat of Erwin of Steinbach. In the... iiitiTior of this tower are the bells that strike the hours, that whith is called the gates' bell {Thorglocke) * and also a clock made in 4786 by two clockmakers ofStrasbHrg, Maybaum father and son. An inscription over the door leading to the plat-form recalls to mind the earthquake of 4728, so violent that the water was raised from the reservoirs and thrown to a distance of eighteen feet'. In front of the four principal sides of the octagon lower are turrets with winding stairs, and consisting but of a series of windows that rise in a spiral form.
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