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ready to oblige we entered the church and
ascended the tower. It took us some little
time to scramble to the top as the staircase
was very narrow, and the dust the accu-
mulations of centuries lay thick on every
thing. We frightened a great number of
birds which had made their nests here
and which flew through the small loop-
holes or windows which admitted the
only light which found its way in.
At length a little door at the top
having been opened not without some
difficulty, we stepped out on the lead
on the top of the tower, and [[London]]
being spread out like a map at our feet.
The tower is of no great height only
one hundred and twenty five feet I
believe, but it afforded a magnificient
view and as the afternoon was beautifully
clear we could plainly see as far as
the eye could reach; from the [[Surrey]]
Hills in the South to the [[Hampstead]]
Hills in the North; and east and west
for many miles up and down the river.

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