Note 47 — LETTER XXVI. BASILICAN CHURCHES.

I have copied these dimensions from Uggeri, but I suspect they are not correct, because in the old church he assigns 68 French feet to the width of the central nave, and 200 to the whole width of the building; while in the present, which is always understood to stand on the old foundation, reinforced perhaps, but not destroyed, the width of the nave according to the same author, is only 54 such feet, and the whole width 164. The difference, if correct, can only arise from the additional thickness of the present walls and piers.