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be noticed in the absence of upright supports for the longitudinal ribs; these ribs have no visible supports whatever, but merely die against the vertical portions of the vault surface. Of connection between the vaults and the lower stories of the structure there is less than in any vaulted
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building that we have yet noticed—the vaulting shafts resting on corbels situated far above the springing of the triforium arches. There are thus no continuous upright members embracing even two of the stories; and there would be hardly less structural continuity from the pavement if these vaults were carried on corbels at their springing. The ground-story and the triforium are merely two super-
