26 KALM'S ENGLAND. 



[T. I. p. 378.] The zgth April, 1748. 

 Hattar Of Tagel. Hats of horsehair. 



Several ladies in this place had hats which were made 

 of snow-white horsehair and looked incomparably well. 



The dome of St. Paul's. 



At mid-day I went with Mr. Warner and Captain 

 Shierman up St. Paul's Kyrko-torn to see the prospect 

 round London from thence. We ascended the same 

 right up to the top by steps, trappor. The tower is all 

 built of white Portland stone which is full of all sorts of 

 petrified bivalve shells, musslor. Farther on more 

 shall be given about St. Paul's Church and Tower. 



From the highest gallery, Fran ofversta galleriet, 

 of this tower was a matchless view on all sides if only the 

 air had got to be clear, but the thick coal smoke, which 

 on all sides hung over the town, cut off the view in 

 several places. From it we could count a very large 

 number of Churches in London, that is to say, something 

 over 60, all of which had towers, and could be distin- 

 guished from the other large houses. 



InnanhvalfVet eller kapan pa detta stora 

 torn, som ar inne uti Kyrkan, the inside of the dome 

 of this great tower, which has galleries round about it on 

 the inside, is particularly remarkable for this, that if one 

 sets his mouth close to the wall and whispers something, 

 hviskar nagon ting, at one of the doors^ which go 

 in to the dome, and another person at the same time sets 

 his ear to the wall at one of the other doors which are 

 on the opposite side of the dome, he hears every word 

 that is whispered, nor den hvart ord, som hviskas, 

 very plainly and distinctly, as when one speaks through 

 a long small pipe or. tube ; but if he takes his ear from the 



