MARTIN the lithographer has published an elaborate fac-simile of HoetAa's
Panoramic View or Pictorial Map of London in 1647,— a curious and interesting document, that should be paired by a similar one of London in its present state. The difference that two hundred years has made in London is strikingly shown. We see Westminster Hall and Abbey standing in the fields ; all is country behind St. Sepulchre's Church, Guildhall, the Exchange, and the Tower. Old London Bridge, the only one over the Thames, groans beneath the weight of its heap of houses, and cumbrous gate, towers, and chapel ; and old St. Paul's looks like Westminster Abbey out of its place. Along the banks of the river, we see Baynard's Castle, an actual fottress • the Savoy Palace, and the princely houses of the families of Arundel, Essex, Suffolk, Salisbury, Somerset, York, and Durham. On the Southwark side, the Globe Theatre, and Winchester House with its garden, are prominent objects. The Customhouse is an old tower, and Fishmongers' Hall a battlemented dwelling-house. The universal prevalence of gabled roofs produces a singular effect of the alliteration of form. Between the line of Cheapside and the river, the houses are so crowded together that there appears no room for streets.
Before lloaNEtt's panorama of London at the Colosseum wears out, we hope it will be engraved. Such a thing is called for : and it should be placed. hermetically eased in glass, in the cavity of the -foundation-stone of every new building,--that when London shall be as Babylon, its splendour as well as its greatness and extent may be made known to the antiquarians from the shores of the Siberian Gulf or the
4.610 niet:opotis of Africa, that shall explore its ruins.
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