of the world, and he declaired that we could not find another spot
on the face of the earth that would present to our view so grand
a scenery as the one before us
This mMonument on which we stood is 24
feet higher than Trajans Pillar at Rome and on it is the following
inscription in Latin:
In the year 1666 the second day of September
from hence at the distance of 202 feet, the hight up this column
about midnight a most terrible fire broke out which driven
on by a high wind not only wasted the adjacent parts but
also places very remote with incredible noise and fury.
It consumed 89 churches the gates of the city, Guild Hall
many public structures hospitals schools libraries and a vast
number of stately edifices 13,200 dwelling houses 400 streets
of 26 Wards it utterly destroyed 15 and left 8 others shattered
and half burnt. The ruins of the city were 436 acres:
from the Tower by the Thames side to the Temple church
and from the North East Gate along the city wall to Holborn
Bridge. To the estates and fortunes of the citizens it
was merciless but to their lives very favourable (only eight
being lost) That it might in all things resemble the
last conflagration of the world the destruction was sudden
for in a small space of time the same city was set [a]
most flourishing and reduced to nothing. The days after,
When the fatal fire had baffled all human councils and
endeavours, the opinion of all, as it were by the will of
heaven it stoped and on every side was extinguished.
August 22nd I received a letter from
Mrs Woodruff which gave me much joy and I wrote her
in return. We also received one from Brigham Young
and a copy of the 4th No of the Millennial Star. I walked
out in the evening near the house of Parliament and bought
a good pocket watch and paid £2.90
we went to Zion's chapel and
heard the celebrated Rev Robert Aitken preach two sermons
He delivered an interesting warning to the Gentiles, and presented
some of the most sublime truths I ever heard from a sectarian
priest; but he was building without the foundation.
of the world, and he declaired that we could not find another spot
on the face of the earth that would present to our view so grand
a scenery as the one before us
This Monument on which we stood is 24
feet higher than Trajans Pillar at Rome and on it is the following
inscription in Latin:
In the year 1666 the second day of September
from hence at the distance of 202 feet, the hight up this column
about midnight a most terrible fire broke out which driven
on by a high wind not only wasted the adjacent parts but
also places very remote with incredible noise and fury.
It consumed 89 churches the gates of the City, Guild Hall
many public structures hospitals schools libraries and a vast
number of stately edifices 13,200 dwelling houses 400 streets
of 26 Wards it utterly destroyed 15 and left 8 others shattered
and half burnt. The ruins of the City were 436 acres:
from the Tower by the Thames side to the Temple Church
and from the North East Gate along the City wall to Holborn
Bridge. To the estates and fortunes of the citizens it
was merciless but to their lives very favourable (only eight
being lost) That it might in all things resemble the
last conflagration of the world the destruction was sudden
for in a small space of time the same city was set ink smear
most flourishing and reduced to nothing. Three days after,
When the fatal fire had baffled all human councils and
endeavours, the opinion of all, as it were by the will of
heaven it stoped and on every side was extinguished.
August 22nd I received a letter from
Mrs Woodruff which gave me much joy and I wrote her
in return. We also received one from Brigham Young
and a copy of the 4th No of the Millennial Star. I walked
out in the evening near the house of Parliament and bought
a good pocket watch and paid £2.90
August 23rd we went to Zion's chapel and
heard the celebrated Rev Robert Aitken preach two sermons
He delivered a powerful warning to the Gentiles, and presented
some of the most sublime truths I ever heard from a sectarian
priest; but he was building without the foundation.
