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Rh Bk. VII. Ch. II. CATHEDRAL AT GERONA. 269 hall practically of two squares, the clear width being 73 ft., the length 160 ft. Considering that 40 ft. is about the normal width of the naves of the largest French and English cathedrals, such a span is 714. Interioi- of Collegiate Churoli, Manresa. (From Street.) gigantic, though with the internal buttresses of the side chapels it presented no great difficulty of construction. Indeed, when we re- member that in their vaulted halls the Romans had adopted 80 ft. (vol. i. p. 319) as the normal span of their intersecting vaults, it is