He put me down at the Newton Hotel, but I looked in vain to its top to see anything like an observatory.
"I went into a wine-shop near, and asked a girl, who was pouring out a dram, in which house Newton lived.

She pointed, not to the hotel, but to a house next to a church, and said, 'That's it--don't you see a place on the top?
That's where he used to study nights.' "It is a little, oblong-shaped observatory, built apparently of wood, and blackened by age.

The house is a good-looking one--it seems to be of stone.

The girl said the rooms were let for shops.
"Next I told the driver to take me to Fleet street, to Gough square, and to Bolt court, where Johnson lived and died.
"Bolt court lies on Fleet street, and it is but few steps along a narrow passage to the house, which is now a hotel, where Johnson died; but you must walk on farther through the narrow passage, a little fearful to a woman, to see the place where he wrote the dictionary.

The house is so completely within a court, in which nothing but brick walls could be seen, that one wonders what the charm of London could be, to induce one to live in that place.