“The Thames (Jany 16) was filled with people and tents, selling all sorts of wares as in a citty. The frost (Jany 24) continuing more and more severe, the Thames before London was still planned with boothes in formal streetes, all sorts of trades and shops furnished and full of commodities, even to a printing-presse, where the people and ladyes tooke a fancy to have their names printed on the Thames. This humour tooke so universally, that 'twas estimated the printer gain'd 51. a-day, for printing a line only, at sixpence a name, besides what he got by _ballads_, &c. Coaches plied from Westminster to the Temple, and from several other staires to and fro, as in the streetes, sleds, sliding with skeates, a bull-baiting, horse and coach races, puppet playes and interludes, cookes, tipling, and other lewd places, so that it seem'd to be a bacchanalian triumph, or carnival on the water.” “It began to thaw (Feb. 5), but froze againe. My coach crossed from Lambeth to the Horseferry at Millbank, Westminster. The booths were almost all taken downe; but there was first a map, or landskip, * cut in copper, representing all the manner of the camp, and the several actions, sports, and pastimes thereon, in memory of so signal a frost.” * These “Landskips” are interesting, and very difficult to be obtained. Thirteen, representing the Frost Fairs of 1683, --1715-16,--and 1739-40, now lie before us. “An exact and lively Mapp or Representation of Booths, and all the varieties of Showes and Humours upon the Ice on the River of Thames, by London, during that memorable Frost in the 35th yeare of the reigne of his Sacred Maty King Charles the 2d. Anno Dni 1683. With an Alphabetical Explanation of the most remarkable figures,” exhibits “The Temple Staires, with people going upon the ice to Temple Street--The Duke of Yorkes Coffee House--The Tory Booth--The Booth with a Phoenix on it, and Insured as long as the Foundation Stand-- The Roast Beefe Booth--The Half-way House--The Beare Garden Shire Booth--The Musiek Booth--The Printing Booth--The Lottery Booth--The Horne Tavern Booth--The Temple Garden, with Crowds of People looking over the wall--The Boat drawnc with a Hors--The Drum Boat--The Boat drawne upon vehiceles--The Bull-baiting--The Chair sliding in the Ring-- The Boyes Sliding--The Nine Pinn Playing--The sliding on Scates--The Sledge drawing Coales from the other side of the Thames--The Boyes climbing up the Tree in the Temple Garden to sec ye Bull Baiting--The Toy Shoops--London Bridge.” Another of these “lively Mapps” has a full-length portrait of Erra Pater, referred to by Hudibras,