Of course we didn't _see_ London, and if we stay a month we shall still know nothing of it, it is so immense.

I keep thinking, as I go through the streets, of 'The rats and the mice, they made such a strife, he had to go to London,' etc., and especially 'The streets were so wide, and the lanes were so narrow;' for I never saw such narrow streets, even in Boston.
"We have begun to send out letters, but as it is 'out of season' I am afraid everybody will be at the watering-places.
THE GREENWICH OBSERVATORY.

"The observatory was founded by Charles II.
The king that 'never said a foolish thing and never did a wise one' was yet sagacious enough to start an institution which has grown to be a thing of might, and this, too, of his own will, and not from the influence of courtiers.

One of the hospital buildings of Greenwich, then called the 'House of Delights,' was the residence of Henrietta Maria, and the young prince probably played on the little hill now the site of the observatory.
"But Charles, though he started an observatory, did not know very well what was needed.

The first building consisted of a large, octagonal room, with windows all around; it was considered sufficiently firm without any foundation, and sufficiently open to the heavens with no opening higher than windows.