. The encyclopædia of geography: comprising a complete description of the earth, physical, statistical, civil, and political. ill- ^^*^^^ ^l k,-. Westminster Abbey. ness of proportion. The interior ofSt. Pauls is too bare of ornament;but the defect is partly supplied bymarble monuments of various de-grees of meiit. Westminster Abbey (Jig. 150.)is a noble specimen of Gothic archi-tecture. The interior is grand indesign and rich in detail, and themterest which it excites is en-hanced by the ninncrous monumentsof kings, warriors, statesmen, phi-losophers, and poets, which it en-closes. The chapel

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. The encyclopædia of geography: comprising a complete description of the earth, physical, statistical, civil, and political. ill- ^^*^^^ ^l k,-. Westminster Abbey. ness of proportion. The interior ofSt. Pauls is too bare of ornament;but the defect is partly supplied bymarble monuments of various de-grees of meiit. Westminster Abbey (Jig. 150.)is a noble specimen of Gothic archi-tecture. The interior is grand indesign and rich in detail, and themterest which it excites is en-hanced by the ninncrous monumentsof kings, warriors, statesmen, phi-losophers, and poets, which it en-closes. The chapel built at the\rpstcrn extremity by Henry honour of the blessed Virgin, isin the richest style of the later

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