. London . f the City gates,Sion College, the Royal Exchange, the old Grey FriarsChurch, the Chapel of St. Thomas of Aeon, and an immense number of greathouses, schools, pri-sons, and area covered>roughly speaking, anoblong nearly a mileand a half in length byhalf a mile in value of the^:V^brCrii property destroyedwas estimated at tenmillions. There is nosuch fire of any great city on record, unless it is the burningof Rome under Nero. Their city being thus destroyed, the citizens lost no timebut set to work manfully to rebuild it. The rebuilding ofLondon is a subj
. London . f the City gates,Sion College, the Royal Exchange, the old Grey FriarsChurch, the Chapel of St. Thomas of Aeon, and an immense number of greathouses, schools, pri-sons, and area covered>roughly speaking, anoblong nearly a mileand a half in length byhalf a mile in value of the^:V^brCrii property destroyedwas estimated at tenmillions. There is nosuch fire of any great city on record, unless it is the burningof Rome under Nero. Their city being thus destroyed, the citizens lost no timebut set to work manfully to rebuild it. The rebuilding ofLondon is a subject of some obscurity. One thing is quitecertain, that as soon as the embers were cool enough to enablethe people to walk among them, they returned, and began tofind out the sites of their former houses. It is also certainthat it took more than twro years to clear away the totteringwalls and the ruins. It was at first proposed to build again on a new plan ;Sir Christopher Wren prepared one plan and Sir John. SION COLLEGE CHARLES THE SECOND 3 Evelyn another. Both plans were excellent, symmetricaland convenient. Had either been adopted the City ofLondon would have been as artificial and as regular as a newAmerican town, or the city of Turin. Very happily, while theLord Mayor and Aldermen were considering the matter, thepeople had already begun to build. A most fortunate thingit was that the City rose again on its old lines, with its wind-ing streets and narrow lanes. At first, the houseless people,two hundred thousand in number, camped out in Moorfields,
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