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Visit to Iceland

CHAPTER I
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In the chapel are many sarcophagi, on which repose bishops and knights hewn in stone, but so much damaged, that many are without hands and feet, while some lack heads.

To the right, at the entrance of the church, is the celebrated chapel of St.Wenceslaus, with its walls ornamented with frescoes, of which the colours and designs are now almost obliterated.

It is further enriched with costly stones.
Not far from the cathedral is situated the palace of Count Czernin, a building particularly favoured with windows, of which it has one for every day in the year.

I was there in an ordinary year, and saw 365; how they manage in leap-year I do not know.

The view from the belvedere of this palace well repays the observer.


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