GRIFFIN

Billingsgate.

Mr. Editor--Stow, in his _Survey of London_, with reference to

Billingsgate, states, from Geoffrey of Monmouth, "that it was built by

Belin, a king of the Britons, whose ashes were enclosed in a vessel of

brass, and set upon a high pinnacle of {94} stone over the same _Gate_."

... "That it was the largest water _Gate_ on the River of Thames." ...

"That it is at this day a large water _Gate_," &c. Can you, Mr. Editor,

or any of your respected correspondents, refer me to any drawing or

description of the said _Gate_?

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