. The Columbian magazine : or, monthly miscellany. ;rgedwith stone, and to steps j the chuirs for the mcm--\yhich the citizens have free ac- bcrs are ranged semicircularly incess ; from this we enter the ves- two rows in front of the speaker,tibule in the center of ihc pile, Each member has his separate\vhich leads in front to the floor chait and desk. There are twoof the Representatives room, or galleries v/hich front the speaker;real Federal Hally and through that below projects fifteen feet,two arches on each side, by a the upper one is liot so large,public staircase on the left, and and is
. The Columbian magazine : or, monthly miscellany. ;rgedwith stone, and to steps j the chuirs for the mcm--\yhich the citizens have free ac- bcrs are ranged semicircularly incess ; from this we enter the ves- two rows in front of the speaker,tibule in the center of ihc pile, Each member has his separate\vhich leads in front to the floor chait and desk. There are twoof the Representatives room, or galleries v/hich front the speaker;real Federal Hally and through that below projects fifteen feet,two arches on each side, by a the upper one is liot so large,public staircase on the left, and and is intended to be at the dis-hv a private one on the rigln, to posal of tlie members for -the ac-the Senate chamber and lobbies, commodation of their friends :This vestibule is paved witli niar- Brsiacs these galleries, there isble ; is very lofty and well finish- a space on the Roor, confined byed ; the lower part is of a light a bar, wlicre the public are ad-rustic, which supports an hand- mitted. There are three smallCol. Mac. /W. IlL No. 8. L 1. ( 473 ) Description of the Federal Edifice at New York. (Illustrated with a Plate, representing a View of that Building.) THE citizens of New York, some iron gallery ; the upper desirous of testifying their half is in a lighter stile, and is attachment to the new nation- finished with a sky light of about al goveimnent, and of making twelve by eighteen feet, which is their city the place of the perma- decorated with a profusion of or- nent residence of the FederalLegislature, have* enlarged andrepaired their city Hall, andmade it a convenient and elegantstructure, worthy of the respec-table body for whose use it isdesigned. This building is situated at theend of Broad Street, v/hcre itsfront appeafs to great basement story is Tuscan,and is pierced watli seven open-ings ; four massy pillars in thecenter support four doric columnsand a pediment. The freeze isingeniously divided to admit thir-teen stars in the metopes ; the
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