Kirby, R. S. [Hrsg.]; Kirby, R. S. [Bearb.]: Kirby's Wonderful And Eccentric Museum; Or, Magazine Of Remarkable Characters: Including All The Curiosities Of Nature And Art, From The Remotest Period To The Present Time, Drawn from every authentic Source. Illustrated With One Hundred And Twenty-Four Engravings. Chiefly Taken from Rare And Curious Prints Or Original Drawings. Six Volumes (Vol. V.) (London: R.S. Kirby, 1820)

46 kirby’s wonderful museum.
and not a trifle to serve their present necessities, but suffi-
cient to afford them relief for several days.
He would, moreover, enquire what neighbours were in-
dustrious in their callings, and which had a great charge of
children; and if their labour and industry could not abun-
dantly supply their families, he used to send, and liberally
relieve them, according to their necessities.
This singular, but benevolent and exemplary character,
died, at his house in Grub-street, after an anchoretical
confinement of forty-four years, October the 29th, 1636,
aged eighty-four years. At his death, his hair and beard
were so overgrown, that he appeared rather like a hermit of
the wilderness, than the inhabitant of one of the first cities
in the world ; and his body lies buried at St. Giles’ Church,
Cripplegate.
A LIST OF THE PRINCIPAL
MOUNTAINS

IN THE KNOWN WORLD, WITH A TABLE OF HEIGHTS IN
ENGLISH FEET, FROM THE LEVEL OF THE SEA, ACCORDING
TO DR. YOUNG, DELUC, SHUCKBERG, ROY, BOURGUER, &C.

Feet.
The Caspian Sea lower by 306
The Thames, at ?
* i □
Hampton, (Roy) j 1
The Tiber at Rome 33
The Seine at Paris,)
r • t. ( ^6|
mean height 3
The Thames atBuck-'\
ingham stairs, fif- f
teen feet and a half 1
, -j / 43
below the pave- /
ment in the left I
arcade J

Roy, supposes the low
water of the spring
tides at Isleworth,
to be only one foot
above the mean sur-
face of the ocean.
He allows seven
feet for the differ-
ence of the low wa-
ter at the Nore and
at Isle worth; taking
eighteen feet for the
height of the spring