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228 A TOUR THROUGH
us to get in: but his attendants soon cleared
the passages; and at once entering the
great gate, we beheld the mcst splendid
scene in the world. The whole church
appeared a ssame of lightwhich, ressected
from ten thousand bright and shining sur-
faces, of different colours and at different
angles, produced an effect, which, I think,
exceeds all the descriptions of enchantment
I have ever read. Indeed, I did not think
that human art could have devised any
thing so splendid. I believe I have already-
mentioned that the whole church, walls,
roof, pillars, and pilasters were entirely
covered over with mirror, interspersed with
gold and silver paper, artificial ssowers,
&c. done up with great taste and elegance,
so that not one inch either os stone or
plaister was to be seen.—Now, form an
idea, if you can, of one of our great ca-
thedrals dressed out in this manner, and
illuminated with twenty thousand wax
tapers, and you will have some faint notion
of
us to get in: but his attendants soon cleared
the passages; and at once entering the
great gate, we beheld the mcst splendid
scene in the world. The whole church
appeared a ssame of lightwhich, ressected
from ten thousand bright and shining sur-
faces, of different colours and at different
angles, produced an effect, which, I think,
exceeds all the descriptions of enchantment
I have ever read. Indeed, I did not think
that human art could have devised any
thing so splendid. I believe I have already-
mentioned that the whole church, walls,
roof, pillars, and pilasters were entirely
covered over with mirror, interspersed with
gold and silver paper, artificial ssowers,
&c. done up with great taste and elegance,
so that not one inch either os stone or
plaister was to be seen.—Now, form an
idea, if you can, of one of our great ca-
thedrals dressed out in this manner, and
illuminated with twenty thousand wax
tapers, and you will have some faint notion
of