Foot-prints of travel; or, Journeyings in many lands . JOURNEYINGS IN MANY LANDS. 193 markable museum, the whole surrounded by spacious andelegantly kept gardens. Twenty courts, eight grand stair-cases, and two hundred ordinary ones, are all containedwithin its walls. It is connected by a covered gallerywith the castle of St. Angelo, a quarter of a mile away,and with St. Peters, which it nearly adjoins. Probablyno other building, or series of buildings, in the world con-tains so much wealth of art and riches generally as doesthe Vatican at Rome. Its treasures in gold, silver, pre-cious stones,
Foot-prints of travel; or, Journeyings in many lands . JOURNEYINGS IN MANY LANDS. 193 markable museum, the whole surrounded by spacious andelegantly kept gardens. Twenty courts, eight grand stair-cases, and two hundred ordinary ones, are all containedwithin its walls. It is connected by a covered gallerywith the castle of St. Angelo, a quarter of a mile away,and with St. Peters, which it nearly adjoins. Probablyno other building, or series of buildings, in the world con-tains so much wealth of art and riches generally as doesthe Vatican at Rome. Its treasures in gold, silver, pre-cious stones, books, priceless manuscripts, and relics, arealmost beyond enumeration. All the world — ancient andmodern, savage and Christian — has contributed to swellthis remarkable accumulation. The two most celebratedpaintings, and esteemed to be the two most valuable inexistence, are to be seen here ; namely, The Transfigura-tion, by Raphael, and The Communion of St. Jerome,by Domenichino. So incomparable are these works of artthat no critic of note has
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