in the midst of one universal dens mass [o]f brick & stone
buildings, covering about six miles squair of ground
while viewing this scenery in a clear day we were
conversing with a Prussian traveller (citizen of Berlin)
who had travled much over Europe & Asia & other
parts of the world, & he declaired we could not
find another spot upon the face of the earth that
would present to our view as grand a scenery as
the one before us. This monument was 24 feet higher
than Trajan's Pillar at Rome. This pillar cost £14,500
or $75,500 dollars. The following is inscribed upon
one side of the monument in LATIN

In the year of Christ 1666 the second
day of September from hence at the distance of two hund-
red & two feet the hight of this column about midnight
a most terrible fire broke out which driven on by a high
wind not ownly wasted the adjacent parts but also places vary
remote with incredible noise & fury. It consumed 89
churches, the gates of the city Guild hall many public struc-
tures, hospitals, schoosls, libraries a vast number of stately
edifices, 13,200 dwelling houses 400 streets of 26 wards
it utterly destroyed 15 & left 8 others shattered & half
burnt. The ruins of the city were 436 acres from the
Tower by the Thames side to the Temple Church &
from the North east Gate along the city wall to Holborn
Bridge. To the estates & fortunes of the citizens it
was merciless but to their lives vary favorable (ownly
eight being lost) That it might in all things resemble the
last conflog^r^ation of the world. The destruction
was sudden for in a small space of time the same
city was seen most flourishing & reduced to
nothing three days after when the fatal fire
had Baffled all human councils & endeavorsurs,
the opinion of all, as it were, by the will of heaven
it stoped & on evry side was extinguished [past]

6 m[iles].

in the midst of one universal dens mass of brick & Stone buildings, covering about six miles squair of ground while viewing this scenery in a clear day we were conversing with a Prussian traveller (citizen of Berlin) who had travled much over Europe & Asia & other parts of the world, & he declaired we could not find another spot upon the face of the earth that would present to our view as grand a scenery as the one before us. This monument was 24 feet higher than Trajan's Pillar at Rome. This pillar cost £14,500 or $75,500 dollars. The following is inscribed upon one side of the monument in LATIN

In the year of Christ 1666 the second day of September from hence at the distance of two hund red & two feet the hight of this column about midnight a most terrible fire broke out which driven on by a high wind not ownly wasted the adjacent parts but also places vary remote with incredible noise & fury. It consumed 89 Churches, the gates of the city Guild hall many public structures, hospitals, schools, libraries a vast number of Stately edifices. 13,200 dwelling houses 400 streets of 26 wards it utterly destroyed 15 & left 8 others shattered & half burnt. The ruins of the city were 436 acres from the Tower by the Thames side to the Temple Church & from the North east Gate along the city wall to Holborn Bridge. To the estates & fortunes of the citizens it was merciless but to their lives vary favorable (ownly eight being lost). That it might in all things resemble the last conflogration of the world. The destruction was sudden for in a small space of time the same city was seen most flourishing & reduced to nothing three days after when the fatal fire had Baffled all human councils & endeavours, the opinion of all, as it were, by the will of heaven it stoped & on evry side was extinguished

6 m.