He who wishes at one view to see a world in
miniature, must come to the dome of St Paul's.
The roof of St. Paul's itself with its two lesser steeples lay below
me, and as I fancied, looked something like the background of a
small ridge of hills, which you look down upon when you have
attained the summit of some huge rock or mountain. I should gladly
have remained here sometime longer, but a gust of wind, which in
this situation was so powerful that it was hardly possible to
withstand it, drove me down.
Notwithstanding that St. Paul's is itself very high, the elevation
of the ground on which it stands contributes greatly to its
elevation.
The church of St. Peter at Berlin, notwithstanding the total
difference between them in the style of building, appears in some
respects to have a great resemblance to St. Paul's in London. At
least its large high black roof rises above the other surrounding
buildings just as St. Paul's does.
What else I saw in this stately cathedral was only a wooden model of
this very edifice, which was made before the church was built, and
which suggests some not unpleasing reflections when one compares it
with the enormous building itself.
