|, tic l7Tises l!io7Tises iiltile front of tie town,i fact each circumstance vled with the other in contributing to tllesublimity of the seene-a scene somagnifceatly aw ful, so perfectly grand, and at the same time so terrific, that an attempt at de .lneation must even check the pencilbe- fore they became exhausted; they at last became extinguished, having burned from 1900 to l500 houses in the short

 space of an hour and half.