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Title: Walks in London
Year: 1880 (1880s)
Authors: Hare, Augustus J. C. (Augustus John Cuthbert), 1834-1903
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Publisher: New York : G. Routledge and sons
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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th a sceptre formed of a winged hand enclosing an eye tothe angels of peace and plenty seated on the descending clouds.Opposite the City, on an elevated pavement, stands the effigy ofCharles II. in a Roman habit, advancing to her aid attended by theSciences holding a terminal figure of Nature, Liberty waving a hat,and Architecture bearing the instruments of design and the plan of thenew City. Behind the king stands his brother the Duke of York,attended by Fortitude leading a lion, and Justice bearing a laurelcoronet. Under an arch beneath the raised pavement on which thesefigures stand appears Envy looking upward, emitting pestiferous flames, THE MONUMENT, 425 and gnawing a heart. Eleven of the preceding figures are sculpturedin alto-relievo ; whilst the background represents in basso-relievo theFire of London, with the consternation of the citizens on the left-hand,and the rebuilding of it upon the right, with labourers at work uponunfinished houses.— Wilkitisons Londina lUustrata,
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Fish Street Hill. The pillar is surmounted by a metal vase of flames. Theoriginal design was to have a plain column, with flamesbursting from holes all tlie way up, and a phoenix at th©top. ♦ao fVALKS IN LONDON, The Fire began early in the morning of Sunday the 31^of September, 1666, in the house of one Farryner, theKings Baker, in Pudding Lane. This man, when cross-examined before the Committee of the House of Commons,proved that he had left his house perfectly safe at twelveoclock on Saturday night, and was convinced that it hadbeen purposely fired. The rapidity with which the flamesspread, chiefly owing to the number of houses* built oftimber, defied all measures for arresting them, though onthe afternoon of the first day the King sent Pepys fromWhitehall to the Lord Mayor, commanding him to spareno houses, but pull down before the fire every way. Bythe first night Pepys could endure no more upon thewater, and from Bankside (Southwark) saw the fire grow,and as it grew darker, ap

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