 ... burning in stench, and dark clouds of smoke; so that in five or six miles traversing about, I did not see one load of timber unconsumed, nor many stones but what were calcined white as snow.  The Diary of John Evelyn - Page 260by John Evelyn - 1906Full view - About this book
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...houses, wore now reduced to extremest misery and poverty. The people who now walked about the ruins appeared like men in some dismal desert, or, rather,...creatures' bodies, beds, and other combustible goods. I then went toward Islington and Highgate, where one might have seen two hundred thousand people, of... | |
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...who now walked about the ruines appear'd like men in a dismal desart, or rather in some greate Citty laid waste by a cruel enemy ; to which was added the stench that came from some poore creatures bodies, bods, &c. Sir Tho. Gressham's statue, tho' fallen from its nich in the Royal... | |
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