New-York tribune., 1901-08-11

two hundred cannon taken at Sebastopol You can
go INSIDE Just within the entrance hang many
votive offerings from those whose prayers to Our
them are small slabs Of marble, with brief nscrip-
uons, but there are wreaths of artificial flowers
and there are grateful recognitions worked per-
forated aper. When YOU have looked at these YOU
jTy through little Window in q the neck W of the
statue or even higher, by ladder. till your head
The view can be seen more easily from the base
fbeT II Is o S 1 Inan from us tGp; & ana o rom @
arg placed upon height in the midst Of a great
IN gentle slopes; green and yellow with pastures
and orchards and vineyards and fields of grain, and
for the whole region is volcanic. Perhaps that
you stand rising so precipitatey from the gentler
Slopes Of the hill II so il would account, too for
which you see here and there about YOU each one
bearing its castle or fits chapel on its top.
PICTURESQUE CATHEDRAL.
When you come down the rock you can view the
Cathedral If you did not do it on the way up II
you did. the chances are that you will feel like
viewing II again. II is so surrounded by other
buildings that fl is hard 10 get good general OBJ
servation OF it, but fl is picturesque in its partial
views. and within IL has fine effect Of weight
and sollcty. But the most remarkable things about
il are its facade and the wonderful staircase which
leads straight up the hill II. The staircase is
about half as wide the church, and when viewed
trance But the floor Of the is really at about
,b b nsgnL oI the IoP OF ms entrance instead Of
facade leads only into a sort Of crypt under the
nave, through which the stairway sun leads up
either Of little side entrances comes into the
chGfch itself, close 10 The choir
quite as interesting as the Cathedral though IL
chDel, on the Rock Of ST. Michael which has al
ready been barely mentioned. Everybody who has
sFti ulea "a INC, european cathedrals for himself
Eil9"~ NOR ionQneSs Tor playing hide and seek.
Ihey ~ stately towers into the sky, and it
pam ii&l enc heeu onN watch them and go I'd
them 5ut take the street which seems 10 lead d-
Tecily toward them, after dozen steps il makes a
Aill tlF towers vanish YOU choose the
seems best and presently you are lost in a tangle
~ narrow streets with cathedral in sight
than i you were in another town. Then one Of
process, and when you reach the Cathedral al last
va nna that you have walked three-ouarters OF
II does seem ss if this little chapel lifted up on
its lofty rock, like a tiny statue a huge pedes-
pillar OF cloud but il plays the old trick Start
toward H. and IL disappears. You noted IL well
you 60 down the Cathedral staircase and start in
the direction in which you know II lies Soon the
~ - liLIo-t H4il ~" sLttts pakeo with lava
Ntlch seem rather ike stalrways inclined planes
though planes" is a hattering title 10 apply TO
them. usually a little sunken dowh the middle
an cement 10 Whatever water IS poured into
them know its place, and spread all over
the street II must be admitted that the smells in
these thorOughfares are rather abundant than
choice As you 90 you VIII ind close together egi-
dences Of the old and the new in the town, Of the
old in q round tower all that remains OF one Of the
old town gates and OF the new IN a fine statue OF
lafayette. erected in 1883. with inscription men
tionng his services 10 America as among his
old bapustry fancifully called a temple Of Diana
snd i you do yod viii not be far from the Rock of
IN Is worth the climb 10 the .np of il 70 see the
curious old chapel a room scarcely large
Corinthian colonnade There is lille aIcove
with altar and there some colored statues,
foT the coming OF new iconociasts The real ART Is
sadly defaeeo and dim saints and angels can be