THE CANON OF CHURCHES. 365 
some feature of a church or cathedral, 
either in spires, minarets, or flying but¬ 
tresses built far out from the main walls 
of the canon. The most grotesque forms 
are those that generally cap the spires; 
it seems necessary that some hard rock 
above should protect the softer under¬ 
neath in order to insure one of these 
petrified pinnacles of nature. 
One of them, two hundred feet in 
height, as seen from the canon, was as 
good a spread eagle as a person would 
want to see cut out of stone, while on 
a tower not a hundred yards away was a 
bust of Hadrian, quite as good as that 
in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, ten 
times as large, and a thousandfold more 
conspicuously placed. A person with a 
small amount of imagination could easily 
make a land of enchantment out of this 
