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ern  and  western  section.  In  the  latter  portion,  from  Girard  avenue  north,  the  hills 
rise  suddenly  to  116  feet  above  the  Schuylkill,  forming  the  extended  Lansdowne 
Terrace  upon  which  the  Exhibition  buildings  have  been  erected. 
These  buildings  are,  altogether,  over  190  in  number,  a  few  of  which  are  still 
unfinished  at  this  date.  The  largest  number  of  these  have  been  erected  for  special 
purposes,  special  exhibits,  and  for  the  accommodation  and  special  interest  of  the 
various  nations  and  States  represented.  Those  buildings  which  are  intended  to 
accommodate  the  arts  and  industries  of  all  nations  are  few  in  numbers,  but  neces- 
sarily very  extensive. 
The  Main  Exhibition  Building  forms  a  parallelogram  1,880  feet  in  length  and  464 
in  width,  and  covering  upon  the  ground  floor  an  area  of  20*02  acres,  or  872,320 
square  feet.  Nearly  the  whole  structure  forms  one  story,  with  a  central  height  of 
70  feet,  the  sides  being  24  feet  high.  In  the  projections  and  towers  are  upper  floors, 
with  an  area  of  nearly  64,000  square  feet,  or  almost  i\  acre. 
Machinery  Hall  is  located  west  of  the  former,  and  has  a  length  of  1,402  feet,  and 
a  width  of  360  feet,  with  an  annex  of  208  by  210  feet.  It  covers  a  ground  space 
of  558,440  square  feet,  or  12*82  acres. 
Memorial  Hall  accommodates  sculptures,  paintings  and  other  products  of  the  fine 
arts,  and  has  been  erected  with  a  view  to  permanence,  no  wood  having  been  used  in 
its  construction,  and  every  portion  of  the  building  being  fire-proof.  It  occupies  the 
most  commanding  portion  of  the  plateau,  and  is  365  feet  in  length  by  210  feet  in 
width,  and  59  feet  in  height,  over  a  basement  12  feet  high,  and  surmounted  by  a 
dome  rising  to  150  feet  from  the  ground.    It  covers  an  aiea  of  1*5  acre. 
The  Horticultural  Building,  which  covers  the  same  area  as  Memorial  Hall, 
and,  like  it,  will  not  be  taken  down  again,  is  situated  north  of  it,  has  a  length  of 
383  feet,  a  width  of  193  feet,  and  an  extreme  height  of  72  feet.  It  consists  of  a 
central  conservatory,  230  by  80  feet,  and  55  feet  high,  and  has  on  each  of  its  long 
sides  two  forcing-houses,  100  by  30  feet,  covered  with  curved  roofs  of  iron  and 
glass.    The  heating  arrangements,  etc.,  are  in  the  fire-proof  basement. 
The  Agricultural  Building  is  still  farther  north,  and  consists  of  a  long  nave, 
crossed  by  three  transepts,  the  central  one  being  100,  each  of  the  two  lateral  ones 
80  feet  wide.  The  nave  has  a  length  of  820  and  a  width  of  120  feet  5  its  extreme 
height,  like  that  of  the  central  transept,  is  75  feet,  the  end  transepts  being  5  feet 
less.    It  covers  an  area  of  10*15  acres. 
The  buildings  mentioned  above  comprise  all  the  general  Exhibition  buildings. 
We  have  deemed  it  necessary  to  give  a  brief  description  of  the  si%e  of  these  struc- 
tures, so  that  our  readers  may  form  some  idea  of  the  immense  amount  of  products 
on  exhibition.  Those  which  are  of  greatest  interest  to  the  pharmacist  and  druggist 
will  mostly  be  found  in  the  Main  Building,  a  few  in  the  Agricultural  Building, 
some  plants  yielding  drugs  in  the  Horticultural  Building,  and  those  pharmaceutical 
apparatus  which,  for  successful  manipulation,  require  steam-po-zver,  in  Machinery 
Hall. 
Articles  of  more  or  less  pharmaceutical  interest  will,  however,  also  be  found  in 
the  extensive  building  erected  by  the  United  States  Government  and  in  the  Women's 
Pavilion. 
The  arrangement  in  the  Exhibition  halls  is  national,  that  is,  a  certain  space  has 
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