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 6 From cast to the Cathedral is ex- ternallydivided  compart- ments bybutterflies of equal dementions, be- tween which are Gothic windows of several different. This succession of widows is intented in the middle of the building by the section of the Cross as well as by two very large windows on opposite side of the Cathedral, each 40 feet high and 20 feet wide at the base which are directly under the great tower, in the centre of of the church. Above this first large of windows the wall terminates a  which springs the lowest till it meets the second or inner wall, which rises from thence for a number of feet:and in like another with the four, or lower wall is divided into compartments by small square between each of which are    narrow Gothic win- dows, directly above each of these in the story;it then terminates in the same manner with the lower wall,caped with a roof.

0wing to the of the ground upon which the Cathedral placed a great differ- ence of hight appears in favour of the East side where the ground is lower in so much that although on the West of the Church, the buttom of the of windowa are within a few feet or the ground yet by being carried horizontal when the succession arrives at the other end. they are very considerably ,and betwix them and the ground