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 OF TlIK MONASTEKY OF ST. GALL. 89 The original, preserved in the library of St. Gall, is drawn u})on a large sheet of parchment. The fac-similc publislied by Keller was intended to have been exactly of the same size as the original, but an accident that happened to the litho- graphic stone compelled him to employ one that Avas not (piite so large as his drawing, and therefore to reduce the ])ublislied copy by one-fifth. The copy now presented to our readers is one-half of Keller's, and therefore bears to the ori- ginal the proportion of two to five. The walls of the build- ings, the furnitiu'e, and every detail, are alike made out by thin single red lines, without regard to the proportional thick- ness of the different objects ; and the plan has evidently no l)retension to have been laid down to scale, for the church is said in the legends written upon it to be two hundred feet long and eighty feet broad, whereas if we attcnii)t to make a scale by dividing the length into two hundred ])arts we shall find the breadth only fifty-six of such parts. Similar differ- ences occur when such a scale is applied to the intercolum- niations, which are said to be twelve feet in the nave and ten in the atrium. The plan must therefore be considered as a mere diagrauL In many parts of it objects are represented in elevation, such as the crosses erected in parts of the church and in the cemetery, the arcades of the cloister, trees, and so on. This license is familiar to all who have been accustomed to ancient draAvings, and is indeed employed even in our own time to a certain extent. In plate 2 I have endeavoured to supply a kind of key to the plan in its original state in plate 1, for as the latter is somewhat confused, and requires considerable study to enable us to distinguish the several parts and buildings, I have in the key-plan drawn the walls with thick black lines, tinted the covered buildings, and supplied English lettering. The entire establishment resembles a town composed of isolated houses, with streets running between them. This is probably due to their having been erected of wood, with the exception of the church. The church has the cloister attached to its south side, and the latter is smTounded by three large buildings in the usual manner, a])pro])riated respectively to the dormitory, the refectory, and the ceharium or provision de- ])artment. Also on the east side of the church stands a group of buildings arranged about a couple of courts, and including the intirmarv and the convent of the novices. With these