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with illuminated texts, was opened to show the gilded 

 intricate Gothic structure inside, which contains the 

 heart of ranuel Jos6 Mosquera, one time archbishop of 

 Bogota and brother of Tomds Cipriano de Losquera. 



We went up several flights of stone steps, along a 

 balcony over the patio, to the chapter room. Beauti- 

 ful old carved walnut armchairs with leather backs cut 

 and painted like don Guillermo's were ranged around a 

 long table . Glass cases held vestments and colored 

 busts of early archbishops. There was an old ivory 

 crucifix on a large tortoise shell standard. 



In the next room, on shelves, on the floor, piled in 

 a corner, etc were old books in 16th century bindings 

 of leather, old manuscript records of early cathedral 

 chapters, signatures of Felipe II and III, n yo el rey u . 



Next we went out along the balcony, past ten or 

 twelve large standing candelabra, to a dusty store room 

 with from 20 to 2$ "libros corales n , huge heavy books, 

 standing on end in a rack, each about three feet high 

 and several inches thick, with heavy parchment leaves, 

 illuminated initials, large black letters and black mu- 

 sical notation, n todos los oficios de las misas ft . 



We came down and out a door in an almost blank wall 

 on a side street, found our cars and drove to the house 

 of the Marqu&S de San Jorge, at Carrera 6 a , N Q 7-U3# The 

 street door is large and heavy, with a knocker of dark 

 red metal in the form of a slender hand pointing straight 

 down and holding a round fruit. There is a large v/ide 

 entry where horses were unharnessed, with a flat stone 

 poyo on each side where the poor waited for alms. 



The first patio is large, paved with small irregular 

 stones, with bushes growing in tiny beds held up by 

 bricks on end; in the center is a carved stone fountain. 

 W« went up wide stone stairs, past a gilded celosla with 

 a crucifix at top and along a balcony to the salon. There 

 we were presented to oefiora de Restrepo, small and 

 straight with scanty white hair pulled tight j she was 

 wearing a heavy full black skirt, long, and a small 

 fringed black shawl held close around. The furniture was 

 upholstered in red silk. There were tables of inlaid 

 wood and a round center table of inlaid wood with a queer 

 fleecy top. 



The next room was long, with a large portrait of the 

 sehora's father and an elaborate large wreath-draped me- 

 morial to Ruperto Pestrepo. There was a case of old 

 books , among which was a book presented by Bolivar to his 

 secretary, a Restrepo 3 on one side of the window was the 

 escritorio of the sefiora' s father, on the other was a 

 small upright piano and a high case of books . We went 

 along a balcony to a private chapel, with altar, kneeling 



