Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 513
e by making the columns on the low sidehigher than the others. The walls, too, arestrengthened with iron bars. Fancy the con-sternation of the architects when they saw theirbeautiful tower leaning over, and its foundations 498 THE BELL-TOWERS OF ITALY. I. April, sinking in the ground! It requires… … GIOTTO S CAMPANILE, OR BELL-TOWER, IN FLORENCE. course of the ascent to the top the inclinationis not very apparent; but at the summit it be-comes so, and gives one the sensation of beingin a ship that has heeled over through the actionof an ebb-tide. The effect upon the low side,so to speak,…
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