These papers are now
translated, and contain abundance of very odd observations, which I
find this little fraternity of kings made during their stay in the
Isle of Great Britain. I shall present my reader with a short
specimen of them in this paper, and may perhaps communicate more to
him hereafter. In the article of London are the following words,
which without doubt are meant of the church of St. Paul
"On the most rising part of the town there stands a huge house, big
enough to contain the whole nation of which I am the king. Our good
brother E Tow O Koam, King of the Rivers, is of opinion it was made
by the hands of that great God to whom it is consecrated. The Kings
of Granajar and of the Six Nations believe that it was created with
the earth, and produced on the same day with the sun and moon. But
for my own part, by the best information that I could get of this
matter, I am apt to think that this prodigious pile was fashioned
into the shape it now bears by several tools and instruments, of
which they have a wonderful variety in this country. It was
probably at first a huge misshapen rock that grew upon the top of
the hill, which the natives of the country, after having cut into a
kind of regular figure, bored and hollowed with incredible pains and
industry, till they had wrought in it all those beautiful vaults and
caverns into which it is divided at this day.
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