CONSTRUCTION' OF THE BUILDING.

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Tlie principal entrance to the Exhibition is situated in the centre of the south The BniUmgside, opposite to the Prince of Wales’s Gate, one of the main entrances to Hyde entrance'; 1 * 11Park. From this gate a good view of the southern fiujade of the transept (shownin fig. No. 1) is obtained. Passing through a vestibule, 72 feet by 48, the

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visitor finds admittance to the main building, and stands beneath the roof of thegreat feature of the whole, the transept. Above his head, at a height of 68 feetfrom the ground, springs a semi-cylindrical vault, 72 feet in diameter, whichextends for a length of 408 feet from south to north. On each side of the space 1118 “«>upd’anrso covered, runs an aisle 24 feet wide. The “ coup d’ceil” afforded by thetransept is represented in Plate I.

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Advancing about halfway along the transept, the visitor will find himself asnearly as possible in the centre of the building; and from this point his eye may its central pointrange eastward and westward along its vast nave, for a distance of upwards of900 feet in each direction; the total length of the building being not less than1848 feet. By reference to the ground plan given at page 1, and to fig. 2, aclearer idea may be formed of the manner in which the vast area, that thus opensitself to the view, has been distributed, than could be conveyed by many pages ofdescription. The nave is a grand avenue 64 feet high and 72 feet wide, crossing its extent,the transept at right angles. On each side of it extend aisles 24 feet in width,and above them, at a height of 24 feet from the ground, are carried galleries,surrounding the whole of the nave and the transept; so that a complete circuitof communication is carried throughout the whole structure at that level.

Beyond these first aisles, and parallel with them, at a distance of 48 feet, are and divisions onsecond aisles of similar width, and similarly covered for their whole width with vgalleries on the same level as those over the first aisles. In order that the

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