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the pillars and forming a roof overhead. The better 

 to secure the ruin, a new gate of antique workman- 

 ship with iron ornaments is put up. When this is 

 suddenly opened, the effect is most striking and 

 surprising. You suddenly look down the avenue of 

 ivy-clad pillars, and see their grand perspective lines 

 closed at a distance of three hundred feet by a mag- 

 nificent window eighty feet high and thirty broad; 

 through the intricate tracery you see a wooded 

 mountain from whose side project abrupt masses 

 of rock. Overhead the wind plays in the garlands 

 of ivy, and the clouds pass swiftly across the deep 

 blue sky. When you reach the centre of the church, 

 whence you look to the four extremities of the cross, 

 you see the two transept windows nearby as large 

 and as beautiful as the principal one; through each 

 you command a picture entirely different, but each 

 in the wild and sublime style which harmonizes so 

 perfectly with the building. Immediately around 

 the ruin is a luxuriant orchard. In spring how 

 exquisite must be the effect of these grey venerable 

 walls rising out of that sea of fragrance and beauty. 

 A Vandal Lord and Lord Lieutenant of the country 

 conceived the pious design of restoring the church. 

 Happily Heaven took him to itself before he had time 

 to execute it. " 



Everything that has been here said about the loca- 

 tion of buildings applies equally to other buildings on 

 any place; the interlocking of vines and other plants 



