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Scientific American, Vol. 36, No. 4 (January 1877) (1877)

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mountains, The illusion is sedulously such as none but poets can - .^ describe. Within, Saint enhanced by the architec- ^^^jz^^t^ tural construction. The iJ^5:^- :'=^ Peter's is finished in ex- - ^^- quisite marbles, and in size of objects that are at ^ ;" a distance above the eye .-^s^^i-- -==r… … was at once done, the ca- ries and a half in build- ST. PETER'S AND THE VATICAN, ROME. bles contracted, and Na- ing, it was superintended ture lifted the stone the by forty-three popes, and its cost was $49,840,000. rest of the way. To ascend to the roof is like visiting an aerial village. The Our…

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