Originally published in Hood's Magazine (Henry Hurst) vol.5 #6 (Jun 1846).
This is a scene of downright enchantment, from its cupola to its base; from its internal pictorial representation of this huge Babel, as seen from the top of St. Paul's, to its external bird's-eye view of as much of that same Babel as can come within the scope of actual vision; from its grottoes, to its stalactite caverns; its spiral, many-jetting fountains, 1in the front, to its Mont Blanc by moonlight, in the rear: it is, in fact, a scene that a dozen inspections cannot exhaust; and not to have revelled in which, is to have denied oneself a refined pleasure, and a very memorable enjoyment.