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The baronial and ecclesiastical antiquities of Scotland (1852)

Billings, R. W. (Robert William), 1813-1874 · Edinburgh W. Paterson · leaf 188

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sources of the art and mystery over which it presided. Alarjre number of those mysterious little signs called masons marks, are to be found on the stonesof Rosslyn. Mr Wilson, in his Archceohgy of Scotland, gives a transcript of twenty-two of them,tand justly says, that the observation and… … Unlike Glasgow Cathedral, which stands upon a declivity, Eosslyn Chapel is built upon levelground, edging a rapid descent. In other respects, notwithstanding we are comparing smallthings to great, there is some identity; for Glasgow has its under Church, and Rosslyn has whatis said to have been an…

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