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ome otherwise than with a feeling of disap-| terior aspect, the effect would again be disproportionate. | finally he emerges in the golden ball below the cross. Here pointment. At this first sight begins that series of ocular} Hence the twodomes, one covering the other, and the outer | sixteen… … ries and a half in build- i; was at once done, the ca- ing, it was superintended ST. PETER’S AND THE VATICAN, ROME. bles contracted, and Na- by forty-three popes, and ture lifted the stone the its cost was $49,840,000. To ascend to the roof is like visiting an aerial village. The| rest of the way.…

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