FOOTNOTES:
[A] Alluding to the “Wanderings” of Mr. Waterton; a very delightful and entertaining book, and not more marvellous than true.
[B] Which singular circumstance occurred; the hands pointing to the hour on the dial-plate at half-past one o’clock, when the fire reached the machinery of the clock.
[C] The original founder of the first Royal Exchange, Mr. Thomas Gresham, whose statue remains still entire.
[D] This much admired statue, by Spiller, still stands in the centre of the piazza, on a pedestal uninjured.
[E] The bells chimed, as usual, to the tune of “There’s nae luck aboot the house,” till within five minutes of the fire reaching that portion of the tower.
[F] Written on the occasion of the loss of the “Conqueror,” East Indiaman, during the late gales off the Coast of France.
[G] In the vicinity of Dover, lately destroyed by combustion, being from 300 to 400 feet in height, for the purposes of the South-Eastern Railway, under the direction of Mr. Cubitt, the engineer.