A cyclopaedia of works of architecture in Italy, Greece, and the Levant (1895)
Longfellow, William Pitt Preble, 1836-1913 · New York, Scribner's sons · leaf 237
egularlyplaced, leading to gates of various design,mostly groups of pointed arches in squarebits of wall. The summit of the hill pro-trudes within the building in an unevenrock some sixty ft. across and from one tofive ft. high, which is guarded by a mar-ble screen or wall. Round this is a… … a stilted hemispherical dome about 80 ft.in outside diameter and 110 ft. or more tothe top. The inner aisle is enclosed l)y anarcade which makes an octagon of 1^4 ft.in diameter, with piers at the angles andsi.xteen columns or piers between—theouter aisle by a solid wall pierced bypointed windows.…
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