318 Dr King on the 
by Captain Cartwright in 1772. The number of shipping 
they saw at London Bridge greatly astonished them, but the 
bridge itself, they passed through without taking the least 
notice of it. It was soon discovered they had taken it for 
a natural rock which extended across the river. They 
laughed at Captain Cartwright when he told them it was the 
work of man; nor could they be persuaded to the fact until 
they came to Blackfriars’ Bridge, which he caused them to 
examine with more attention ; shewing them the joints, and 
pointing out the marks of the chisels upon the stones. They 
no sooner, however, comprehended by what means such a 
structure could be raised, than they expressed their wonder 
with astonishing significancy of countenance. St Paul’s, also, 
they supposed to be a natural production; and they were 
quite lost in amazement when they were taken to the top, 
and convinced that it was a work of art. The people below 
they compared to mice, and insisted that it must be at least 
as high as Cape Charles, a mountain of considerable altitude. 
The exquisite nose of the hound, the sagacity and steadiness 
of the pointer, and the speed of the greyhound, were matters 
of great astonishment to them. But above all, they were 
most struck with the strength, beauty, and utility, of that 
noble animal the horse. At first the multiplicity and variety 
of objects confused them, and on one occasion, one of the 
men named Attiock, after a long walk, remained very pensive, 
and then turning up his head, and fixing his eyes upon the 
ceiling, he broke out into this soliloquy, “ Oh! I am tired. 
Here are too many houses; too much smoke; too many 
people; Labrador is very good; seals are plentiful there ; I 
wish I was back again.” The longer, however, they con- 
tinued in England the greater was their admiration in pro- 
portion, their ideas gradually expanding till at length they 
began more clearly to comprehend the use, beauty, and 
mechanism, of what they saw. 
They attracted great notice during their stay in this 
country. On witnessing a review by His Majesty they were 
so surrounded by the crowd as to incommode their view, 
which attracting the notice of the King, he gave orders for 
their admission into the reserved ground. Here his Majesty 
