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took me in hand and prepared a hearty tea to which
we all sat down, Uncle and his son, Mrs Dunn
and I; my aunt they informed me was somewhere
down in the country but was expected back
in a day or two. After tea Mrs Dunn undertook
to show me around the town a little. We
first went and had a look at St. Paul's
Cathedral, an immense building which
towers like a mountain far above the sur-
rounding buildings, surmounted with a dome
which with its gilded cross seems almost to
reach the heavens. We had no time to go
into the interior and as the eveing was closing
in we took but a cursory glance of the out-
side and passed on, deferring till another visit
a more extended inspection. We then passed
the Post Office, an immense plain looking
building and after threading innumerable
crooked little streets in one of which Mrs.
Dunn pointed out the house in which Papa was born
we arrived at "William Gravell & Sons [Watchmen's?].
There I was introduced to my uncle William
and his two sisters, aunts Sarah and Mary.
We stopped here a few minutes and Uncle

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