ted on the south side, below the transept. It
forms a square of about thirty feet, and rises to an elevation of
upwards of eighty. The walls are divided into stories and compartments,
and covered, as is also the ceiling, with admirable frescos by Martinez
and Rovera. At a side door leading to the sacristy, are two beautiful
columns of _verde antico_. The high-altar is composed of jasper, from
quarries which existed at the distance of a few leagues from Seville.
The statues are by Pedro Cornejo; and there are handsome tombs let into
the lower part of the walls. Four antique chandeliers, one in each
corner, are designed with uncommon grace and originality. From the
summit of a short column rises a silver stem, from different parts of
which spring flat rods of the same metal, so slight as to bend with the
smallest weight: they are of various lengths, and at the extremity of
each waves an elegantly formed lamp. Each of these clusters assumes a
pyramidal form, and produces a charming effect when lighted up on days
of ceremony,--from their harmonizing with the rest of the decorations of
the chapel, no less than from the elegance of their form.

Some of the chapels of this side, and east of the transept, communicate
with other buildings, erected subsequently to the principal edifice, and
consequently not comprised in its plan, nor analogous to its style.
Thus, after passing through the chapel called Del Mariscal, situated at
the south-east of the apse, you enter an anteroom, which leads to the
chapter-hall. The anteroom is an apartment of handsome proportions,
covered, in the intervals of a row of Ionic pilasters, with a series of
pieces of sculpture in white marble. The hall itself is magnificent. It
is an oval of fifty-seven feet in length, entirely hung with crimson
velvet enriched with gold embroidery. Another of the side chapels leads
to the smaller sacristy. I call it smaller because it is not so large as
that which adjoins the orange-court; but it is the principal of the two.
It is a superb saloon, upwards of seventy feet in length by about sixty
wide, ornamented with a profusion of rich sculpture. The architect was
Juan de Herrera.

From the floor to a height of about four feet, a spacious wardrobe,
composed of large mahogany drawers, runs down the two longer sides of
the room. These contain probably the richest collection that exists of
gold and silver embroidered velvets and silks,--brocades--lace--scarfs
and mantle