The trouble was that every thing in it and about it was on such a scale of uniform vastness that there were no contrasts to judge by--none but the people, and I had not noticed them.

They were insects.

The statues of children holding vases of holy water were immense, according to the tables of figures, but so was every thing else around them.

The mosaic pictures in the dome were huge, and were made of thousands and thousands of cubes of glass as large as the end of my little finger, but those pictures looked smooth, and gaudy of color, and in good proportion to the dome.

Evidently they would not answer to measure by.