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Rh Bk. VI. Ch. III. EXTERNAL PROPORTIONS. 165 The cathedral at Salisbury (Woodcut No. 598), though, like the two last named, it has no western towers, still possesses so noble a spire in the centre, and two transepts so boldly projecting, that when viewed from any point east of the great transept it displays one of the best- proportioned and at the same time most poetic designs of the Middle 599. View of Liclifleld Cathedral. (From Britten's " Cathedral Antiquities.") Ages. It is quite true that the spire is an afterthought of the 14th century, and that those who added it ought to have completed the design by erecting also two western towers, but, like St. Sernin's, it is complete as it is, and very beautiful. The fleche at Amiens is 20 ft. higher than the spire at Salisbury, being 424 ft. as against