1,970,409

So that the difference in favor of Paris is 327,127 feet. In round
numbers, the Paris Exposition building is one-fifth larger than the
united areas of the five principal buildings at the Centennial.
Without making a close calculation of the areas of the annexes and
detached buildings either of Philadelphia or Paris, I am disposed to
think that the 1876 Exhibition was not in excess of the present one in
this respect. Either exceeds, both in the main buildings and the swarm
of detached structures, any preceding exhibitions. The difference
between the Paris exhibitions of 1867 and 1878 is as 153 is to 240:
the London building of 1862 would bear to both the proportion of 92,
without any important annexes.

The high ground on the right bank of the Seine is occupied by the
Trocadero Palace, which faces that on the Champ de Mars, each building
being about five hundred yards from the bank of the river, which flows
in so deep a depression that it is visible from neither building, and
the grounds between the two appear to be continuous, though the bridge
suggests the contrary.

The cascade in front of the Trocadero occupies the site of the old
steps by which the steep hill was ascended, but the ground nearer to
the Seine has been so raised that the river-roads on each side run
in subways spanned by bridges, thus permitting free use of the great
thoroughfares without impeding communication between the two portions
of the Exposition. Indeed, they appear as one viewed in either
direction, notwithstanding the intervening streets and wide and rapid
river.

The change in the shape of the Trocadero hill to bring it into a
symmetrical position in front of the Champ de Mars has required the
quarrying of twenty-four thousand cubic metres of rock, leaving a
rough scarp on the northern edge quarried into steps, walks and
grottos, with flowers, ferns and mosses cunningly planted on the ledge
and creepers on the walls.

The Trocadero Palace is the most striking architectural feature of the
Exposition. Standing on a level one hundred and six feet above
the Quai de Billy and overlooking the city of Paris, the dome and
glittering minarets of the building are visible from many miles'
distance. It is not easy to describe its architecture, though it is
called "half Moorish, half Renaissance;" which is not very definite.
It has a large rotunda capable of accommodating seven thousand
persons, and the river-front has two