. Mexico, a history of its progress and development in one hundred years. r later. The cost ofthe completed edifice with its decorations is many millions. Its length is overfour hundred feet, its width one hundred and seventy-seven feet and the height from roof to floor one hundred andseventy-nine feet. The towers aretwo hundred and three feet the edifice is a splendidand graceful dome and lantern, thework of Manuel Tolsa. The cathe-dral was designed by Alonzo PerezCastaneda on the plan of a Latincross. The principal facade faces thesouth. It is broken by three portalscomposed of
. Mexico, a history of its progress and development in one hundred years. r later. The cost ofthe completed edifice with its decorations is many millions. Its length is overfour hundred feet, its width one hundred and seventy-seven feet and the height from roof to floor one hundred andseventy-nine feet. The towers aretwo hundred and three feet the edifice is a splendidand graceful dome and lantern, thework of Manuel Tolsa. The cathe-dral was designed by Alonzo PerezCastaneda on the plan of a Latincross. The principal facade faces thesouth. It is broken by three portalscomposed of the Doric and Ionicorders, which with the exquisitelywrought carvings, the friezes andthe statuary make a most imposingand captivating front. The towersare likewise of the two orders in suc-cession,, the Doric and the Ionic, andmany cornices carry fine balustradeswith pilasters surmounted by splen-did urns and fine , the impression is one of severe grandeur ennobled by vastness ofspace. The style is Gothic and Doric. The lofty vaulted arches are borne on. DR. JOSE MORA, ARCHBISHOP OF MEXICO. CHURCHES AND CHARITIES 237 massive fluted columns of stone. The dome is illuminated with paintings of sacredsubjects, among them an Assumption of the Virgin. In the aisles are fourteenchapels dedicated to various saints. In thatof San Felipe de Jesus are some relics of thissaint, and here lie the remains of Iturbide,the unfortunate emperor, beneath a monu-ment erected to The Liberator. In thechapel of San Pedro lie the bodies of Arch-bishop Zumarraga, the first prelate of Mex-ico, and Gregorio Lopez, the Mexican Manwith the Iron Mask, who is said to havebeen the son of Philip II. of Spain. Thereare some very fine altars; the chief of which,the altar de los Reyes, is very imposing andrises to the arches of the roof. It is mostsumptuously ornamented with carving,gilding and other decorations, and is thedelight and admiration of the Indians espe-cially. Beneath this altar lie th
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