The upper gallery which encircles the inner sweep of the dome is two hundred and forty feet above the floor of the church--very few steeples in America could reach up to it.

Visitors always go up there to look down into the church because one gets the best idea of some of the heights and distances from that point.

While we stood on the floor one of the workmen swung loose from that gallery at the end of a long rope.

I had not supposed, before, that a man could look so much like a spider.

He was insignificant in size, and his rope seemed only a thread.