The innocents abroad; . ROOFS AJSD SPIKES OF CATHEDRAL AT MILAN THE GRAND MILAN CATHEDRAL. 173 stairway (of course it was marble, and of tlie purest and whitest—there is no other stone, no brick, no wood, among its build-. ^OR OF CATHEDRAL AT MILAN. ing materials,) and told us to go up one hundred and eighty-two steps and stop till he came. It was not necessary to saystop—we should have done that any how. We were tired bythe time we got there. This was the roof. Here, springingfrom its broad marble flagstones, were the long files of spires,looking very tall close at hand, but diminishing in th
The innocents abroad; . ROOFS AJSD SPIKES OF CATHEDRAL AT MILAN THE GRAND MILAN CATHEDRAL. 173 stairway (of course it was marble, and of tlie purest and whitest—there is no other stone, no brick, no wood, among its build-. ^OR OF CATHEDRAL AT MILAN. ing materials,) and told us to go up one hundred and eighty-two steps and stop till he came. It was not necessary to saystop—we should have done that any how. We were tired bythe time we got there. This was the roof. Here, springingfrom its broad marble flagstones, were the long files of spires,looking very tall close at hand, but diminishing in the dis-tance like the pipes of an organ. We could see, now, thatthe statue on the top of each was the size of a large man,though they all looked like dolls from the street. We could 174 HIDEOUS PERFECTION IN SCULPTURE. see, also, that from the inside of each and every one of thesehollow spires, from sixteen to thirty-one beantiful marblestatnes looked out upon the world below. From the eaves to the comb of the roof stretched in endlesssuccession great curved marble beams, like the fore-and-aftbraces of a steamboat, and along each beam from end to endstood up a row of richly carved iiowers and fruits—each sep-ara
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