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but there was no convenient place to exhibit it there; and so it was removed to the library, where a long room was fitted up expressly for it. It requires a pretty large room to display the whole of the tapestry at a time, for it is more than two hundred feet long.

The great gate leading into the library was open, but there was a small paling across the entrance, with a gate in the paling that was shut. The party went to this gate and looking in they saw a large open court, with what seemed to be the library building on the farther side of it. On the left side of the entrance to the court was the porter's lodge. The porter, or rather the porteress-for it was a young girl that had charge of the gate-standing at the door of the lodge, invited them to come in, and then when Grimkie told her that they had come to see the tapestry, she conducted them across the court to the front door of the library building, and ushered them in,

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They entered first a sort of hall, the walls of which were hung with pictures, and the centre occupied with a broad spiral staircase, ascending to the story above. On one side of the hall a door opened to the room containing the tapestry. This room was on the lower floor, while the library was above.

The room in which the tapestry was exhibited was about fifty feet long. The whole interior of it was occupied by a long case, like a book case, or rather continuous range of cases, extending up and down the room and across the ends, with an opening in the side of the range, in front, so as to admit the spectator to see both sides of the cases. The lower portion of the cases consisted of open arches, with a broad shelf extending across near the bottom, which shelf was filled with old curiosities of various kinds. The upper portion was occupied by the tapestry, which was hung in a vertical position behind a range of panes of glass, so as to present the successive portions of the surface to view, as the spectator walked along. The general arrangement will be better understood by the following diagram:

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and the figure in the centre the form of the range of cases. The

The girl conducted Mrs. Morelle and her party into the room, and showed them where the series of pictures began. She also gave them a small pamphlet, containing a description of the successive scenes represented on the tapestry, and then left them to themselves. The description was in French. Grimkie took the pamphlet and began to read, translating the descriptions into English as he read, while the rest of the party walked slowly along, following the descriptions as Grimkie read them. In this manner they went slowly on until they had made the circuit of the cases, complete, and had examined the tapestry from beginning to end.

The ground on which the figures were embroidered was a strip of coarse linen cloth, about twenty inches wide, and as has already been said, more than two hundred feet long. It was divided into separate portions, each one of which represented a separate incident or event in the history of the conquest. These separate scenes were all numbered, and each one had an inscription worked in coarse letters above it, along the edge of the picture, explaining briefly the subject of the representation below. These inscriptions

tapestry begins at a, and following the order of the letters a, b, c, &c., to g, around the outside, passes in at g, h, into the interior, and ends at n.

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