Over the Ocean: Or, Sights And Scenes in Foreign Lands
Over the Ocean: Or, Sights And Scenes in Foreign Lands
Curtis Guild
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The great southern portal, which is two hundred and twenty feet high, cost alone one hundred and five thousand pounds. Some idea of the vastness of the cathedral may be had firom the figures representing its dimensions. The inte- rior is four hundred and thirty feet long and one hundred and forty broad ; the transept two hundred and thirty-four feet long, and the choir one hundred and forty feet in height The part which is appropriated for divine service occupies an area of seventy thousand squ...are feet. We strolled round this stupendous old building, and after shaking off the guides and valets de place^ who proffered their services, the agents of cologne-water houses in the vicinity, and the venders of books, stereoscopic views and pictures of it, and even a monkish old fellow who came out of one of the side doors, and rattled a money-box for subscriptions for the workmen, proceeded to have a look at it in our own way. There stood out the old derrick, or crane, an iron arm fifty feet long, that has projected from one of the towers, which is Digitized by VjOOQIC W0NDEB8 OF THB BTJJLDINO.
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