give it the aspect of a cross. The
monument terminates in a _knob_ being 0m .460 in diameter and to
which ever since 1835 a lightning-conductor has been adapted; one
may climb there but with the aid of iron bars to which you must
cling with hands and feet. The total height of this stately
building is 142m.

[1] So called because it was rung morning and night before the
opening and closing of the city gates.

[2] In the interior of this tower and on the balustrade are seen
a great many names of foreigners who have visited the Cathedral.
Among these names are some of celebrated persons, as G[oe]the,
Herder, etc.

[3] Above the first tier of the turrets is seen around the spire
(fleche) the following inscription:

_Christus nos revocat. Christus gratis donat.
Christus semper regnat. Christus imperat.
Christus rex superat. Christus triumphat.
Maria glorificat. Christus coronat._

[4] Besides some other inscriptions on the spire, you read round
the first gallery of the crown these words:

_Jesus Christus verbum caro factum est,
Jesus Christus, et habitavit in nobis,
Jesus Christus, et vidimus gloriam ejus,
Jesus Christus, gloriam quasi unigeniti a Patre._

(S. John. 1. 14.)

[Illustration: The column of angels.]

The nave, decked with a copper roof, abounds no less in
decoration than the front. It has large ogive windows adorned
with _rosaces_; at the place where the buttresses, equally carved
with _rosaces_, join the counterforts or pillars, they have at
their tops fine clochetoons; a great many statues and grotesque
figures of heads complete the ornaments of this part of the
church. Two galleries, one under the windows, the other below the
clochetoons of the counterforts, lead from the towers to the
cross-aisle. This, as we have already said, is still byzantine
in several parts of it. The southern porch, formed by two
semi-circular doors made evidently at one of the remotest periods
of the Cathedral, is adorned with bas-reliefs and statues;
according to tradition, it is reported that two of these statues
are the work of Sabina of Steinbach. One is a woman in a
triumphal posture holding in her hands a communion cup and a
cross; she is the symbol of the church that vanquished the
synagogue; the other, a symbol of the latter, is a woman looking
down, blindfolded and leaning with pain on a broken spear, whil