intended for a
chapter-house, or for a sepulchral chapel in imitation of the Holy
Sepulcre, is an undecided point. I incline to the latter opinion. This
subterranean church or crypt is necessarily lighted from one end only,
where it is flush with the face of the rock; and these openings are
filled with Flamboyant windows, which are very evident insertions. On
the surface of the hill over this church, but with a large space of
solid rock intervening, is the tower and spire belonging to it. The
tower is of late Norman and Transitional character surmounted by a
Flamboyant crocketed spire. There is a kind of well or flue cut
through the rock under the tower into the church below, apparently for
the bell-ropes. In the church are remains of early painting, and some
shallow sculpture, the character of which appears to be of the twelfth
century. Adjoining to the church, on the south side, is a detached
chapel of transition Norman work, with an apse vaulted with good ribs
and vaulting shafts. A considerable part of the old painting is
preserved; some of the ribs are painted with zigzags. Under this
chapel is a crypt or cave cut out of the rock called the Grotto of St.
Emilion, with a spring of water in it. The work is of the same early
character as the other vaults.--_J. H. Parker._

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ANOTHER TALL CHIMNEY.--A factory chimney, said to be the highest in
the world, is now being erected at the Royal Smelting-Works, near
Freiberg, in Saxony. The horizontal flue from the works to the chimney
is 1,093 yards long; it crosses the river Mulde, and then takes an
upward course of 197 feet to the top of the hill upon which the
chimney is being built. The base of the structure is thirty-nine feet
square by thirty feet in height, on which is placed a short octagonal
transition, from which the round shaft starts. This is 430 feet high,
or altogether, with the base 460 feet high, with an inside diameter of
twenty-three feet at the bottom, and sixteen feet and six inches at
the top. It will take 1,500,000 bricks, and the cost is
L6,000.--_Exchange._

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SITE OF A LOCRIAN TOWN.--The site of an ancient city of the Locri in
modern Calabria, Italy, is in progress of excavation, under the
direction of Dr. Orsi. The modern name of the spot is Gerace. A temple
of six columns has been unearthed, and among the prizes is a Greek
group in Parian marble, showing a divinity w