...oven ; the light of burning London could be seen forty miles away. " So near the fire," says Pepys, " as we could for smoke ; and all over the Thames, with one's faces in the wind, you were almost burned with a shower of fire-drops. This is very true ; so as houses...

...water again, and to the fire up and down, it still increasing, and the wind great. So near the fire as we could for smoke ; and all over the Thames, with one's faces in the wind, you were almost burned with a shower of fire drops. This is very true : so as houses...

...water again, and to the fire up and down, it still increasing, and the wind great. So near the fire as we could for smoke ; and all over the Thames, with...with a shower of fire-drops. This is very true ; so is houses were burned by these drops and flakes of fire, three or four, nay, five or six houses, one...

...water again, and to the fire up and down, it still encreasing, and the wind great. So near the fire as we could for smoke ; and all over the Thames, with one's faces in the wind, you were almost burned with a shower of fire-drops. This is very true : so as houses...

...river again to see the fire. He writes a thrilling description - of the scene : " So near the fire as we could for smoke ; and all over the Thames, with one's faces in the wind, you were almost burned with a shower of firedrops. This is very true : so as houses...

...insatiable curiosity ; and Pepys gives us the most vivid account of the Fire, on 2 September, 1666. "All over the Thames, with one's face in the wind, you were calm burned with a shower of fire-drops ... as it grew darker, the fire appeared more and more, and...

...water again, and to the fire up and down, it still encreasing, and the wind great. So near the fire as we could for smoke ; and all over the Thames, with one's faces in the wind, you were almost burned with a shower of fire-drops. This is very true : so as houses...

...water again, and to the fire up and down, it still encreasing, and the wind great. So near the fire as we could for Smoke, and all over the Thames, with one's faces in the wind, you were almost burned with a shower of fire-drops. This is very true ; so as houses...

...water again, and to the fire up and down, it still increasing, and the wind great. So near the fire as we could for smoke; and all over the Thames, with...true; so as houses were burned by these drops and Hakes of fire, three or four, nay, five or six houses, one from another. When we could endure no more...

...1665. "... it still encreasing, and the wind great . . . and all over the Thames, with one's faces in the wind, you were almost burned with a shower of fire-drops . . . saw the fire grow ; and as it grew darker appeared more and more, and in corners and upon steeples,...