LONDON AND ITS ENVIRONS DESCRIBED. VOL. V. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ LONDON AND ITS ENVIRONS DESCRIBED. CONTAINING An Account of whatever is most remarkable for GRANDEUR, ELEGANCE, CURIOSITY or USE, In the CITY and in the COUNTRY Twenty Miles round it. COMPREHENDING ALSO Whatever is most material in the History and Antiquities of this great Metropolis. Decorated and illustrated with a great Number of Views in Perspective, engraved from original Drawings, taken on purpose for this Work. Together with a PLAN of LONDON, A Map of the ENVIRONS, and several other useful CUTS. VOL. V. LONDON: Printed for R. and J. DODSLEY in Pall Mall. ---------- M DCC LXI. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [Illustration: _Monument._ _S. Wale delin._ _J. Green sc. Oxon._ ] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ LONDON AND ITS ENVIRONS DESCRIBED, &c. MON MONUMENT, a noble fluted column, erected by order of parliament, in commemoration of the burning and rebuilding of the city, on the east side of Fish street hill, in a square open to the street. This stately column, which is of the Doric order, was begun by Sir Christopher Wren, in the year 1671, and completed by that great architect in 1677. It much exceeds, in height, the pillars at Rome of the Emperors Trajan and Antoninus, the stately remains of Roman grandeur; or that of Theodosius at Constantinople; for the largest of the Roman columns, which was that of Antoninus, was only 172 feet and a half in height, and 12 feet 3 inches, English measure, in diameter. But the diameter of this column at the base, is 15 feet, and consequently it is 120 feet high; the height of the pedestal is 40, and the cippus or meta with the urn on the top 42, making 202 feet in the whole. On the cap of the pedestal, at the angles, are four dragons (the supporters of the city arms) and between them trophies, with symbols of regality, arts, sciences, commerce, &c.