Excerpt from Essays and Tales, Vol. 2 of 2: Collected and Edited With a Memoir of His Life But if we leave the interior of the church, and mount to one of the outer galleries, there is a change indeed. We lose St. Paul's, and see nothing but London. The building becomes no more than a vantage-ground, from which to con template the vast city. Far and wide spreads over the earth the huge dim capital of the world. Look northward over that province of brick, to the dim outlines of the hills, which seem scarce more than a part of the murky atmosphere; and westward to that other realm of houses, out stripping the gaze, and encircling other distant towers, and stretching away to the seats of go vernment and legislation; and again south, where the wilderness of human habitations is cleft by the wide and gleaming river, laden with all its bridges, and fieckered with a myriad of keels for wealth or idleness; and see too the broad fronts and soaring pinnacles of a hundred churches, and the port that raises against the sky its trellis Work of innumerable masts; and over all this is one hue of smoke, and one indistinguishable hum of activity. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.