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The baronial and ecclesiastical antiquities of Scotland (1845)

Billings, Robert William, 1813-1874 · Edinburgh, London, Pub. for the author by W. Blackwood and sons · leaf 144

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esources of the art and mystery over which it presided. Alarge number of those mysterious little signs called masons marks, are to be found on the stonesof Rosslyn. Mr Wilson, in his Archaology of Scotland, gives a transcript of twenty-two of them,fand justly says, that the observation and… … Unlike Glasgow Cathedral, which stands upon a declivity, Rosslyn 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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