visitor to a massive spot commonly called _the lantern_; higher up is _the crown_[4], which is not reached without danger, by means of steps placed outside, and with no other protection than the wall to which they are fastened; above another widened place, called _the rose_, the spire is nothing but a column whence jut out horizontal branches to give it the aspect of a cross. The monument terminates in a _knob_ being 0m .460 in diameter and to which ever since 1835 a lightning-conductor has been adapted; one may climb there but with the aid of iron bars to which you must cling with hands and feet. The total height of this stately building is 142m. [1] So called because it was rung morning and night before the opening and closing of the city gates. [2] In the interior of this tower and on the balustrade are seen a great many names of foreigners who have visited the Cathedral. Among these names are some of celebrated persons, as G[oe]the, Herder, etc. [3] Above the first tier of the turrets is seen around the spire (fleche) the following inscription: _Christus nos revocat. Christus gratis donat. Christus semper regnat. Christus imperat. Christus rex superat. Christus triumphat. Maria glorificat. Christus coronat._ [4] Besides some other inscriptions on the spire, you read round the first gallery of the crown these words: _Jesus Christus verbum caro factum est, Jesus Christus, et habitavit in nobis, Jesus Christus, et vidimus gloriam ejus, Jesus Christus, gloriam quasi unigeniti a Patre._ (S. John. 1. 14.) [Illustration: The column of angels.]