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 8 Upon these arches are built the great inner trails formerly mentioned which contract the breadth of the building in the upper part as much as their supporters ere distant from the outer wall. Between each piller is placed, through the whole range Gothic windows, which elluminate the area of the Church on the ground floor. Another rier of smaller windows placed along the upper wall, enlighten the vacent space.

In the Choir the grandeur of the architec- ture manefests itself more strikingly than in the division we have last left In this place the same range of pillars and windows are continued which ' were before described— The four most Easterly of these columns, support a great Tower or Steeple in the centre of the Church ; and, according to the weight they bear, are proportionally strong, each being 20 feet in circumferance. Between the two, on each side, are the large opposite windows, which appear, when viewed from the outside in the centre of the Church— The front window or that towards the South, is divided longitudinally   four pillars, or bars, which are crossed'in thte middle thereby forming twelve parallel windows. Over these is a large circular one ten feet in diameter, with two smaller windows to fill up the vacuity which a circle inscribed in a Gothic arch necessarly occasiors. The window to the North is perfectly similar except that it has five bars which run from top to bottom, without being crossed. Between the great