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particular had made in the middle ages, 

 and to deface those beautiful specimens 

 by barbarous encroachments. 



In that chapel, which is supposed to 

 stand unrivalled in Europe for the unity 

 of its design and its internal decoration, 

 one or two of the windows that have 

 obtained universal admiration for their 

 splendid ' colours, as well as for their 

 beautiful illustrations of sacred history 

 from the Old and New Testaments, 

 had long been obscured by a wall, and 

 a side of the building desecrated by 

 offices of the lowest description. 



But all these disfigurements, thanks to 

 the spirit of improvement, have been re- 

 moved, the window restored, and a mag- 

 nificent screen substituted for the wretched 

 hovels that formed one side of the prin- 

 cipal thoroughfare, in a Town that, void 

 of form or uniformity, seemed to be 

 made up of narrow streets and number- 



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