Malcolm, James Peller: First Impressions Or Sketches from Art and Nature, Animate and Inanimate (London, 1807)

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prejudice the sight of the Eastern window, which
is one of the fairest and largest that I have seen."
Mr, Powle then proceeds with an attempt to
account for this accidental effecl ; which he
illurtrates by a drawing, that may have been
clearly understood by himself, but I much doubt
if the reader would comprehend it. I have there*-
fore omitted it.
the chapel op the virgin mary.
Of this words are incompetent to convey a cor-
rect idea : the beautiful and judicious mixture of
limplicity, grace, and rich ornament, were never
more happily blended: in short it is a perfect
building. A porch, faced by a screen; with two
large mullions and seventeen divisions of trefoil
arches and quatrefoils, forms the entrance. This
and the whole floor of the chapel has been paved
with coloured tiles; but forty antient and modern;
mementos of mortality have occasioned the re-
moval of hundreds ; and the constant tread of the
priests, monks, and devotees, prepared them for
that partial obliteration which will at last be
accomplished by their successors, vifitors of rather
less devotion. Though many under the porch-
are undisturbed, yet there is not one complete
circle remaining. Arms, or inscriptions in
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