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Rh Bk. VII. Ch. II. EAELY SPANISH GOTHIC. 253 the same degree of well-understood completeness, call the lines running through without confusion, and every part well propor- tioned to the other. The foliation of the transept arch may be a peculiarity borrowed from the Moors, but, as used here, it is simple and appropriate, and perhaps better than a roll moulding, which would have been the mode of treatment on this side the Pyrenees. 695. Cathedral at Zamora. (From Villa Amil.) The interior of Zamora Cathedral, which seems to have been erected about the year 1174, though wholly in the pointed-arch style, is as plain and as little ornamented as that last described. Even the interior of the dome is plain wlien compared Math its exterior, which is varied in outline and rich in decoration like most of those of that age in Spain. As in the facade, the round arch is employed in the cimborio almost to the exclusion of the pointed arch as a decorative