[Picture: St. Dunstan’s Church]
This is in Fleet Street, and had a very narrow escape from the great fire
of 1666, which stopped within three houses of it. There are two savage
figures on the outside of the clock, that strike the quarters with their
clubs, with which children and strangers are much amused. Dunstan,
before he was made a saint, was well skilled in many arts: he was a good
engraver and worker in brass and iron. He was supposed to be the
inventor of the _Eolian Harp_, whose soft notes are produced by a current
of air causing the wires to vibrate. This was not comprehended by the
vulgar; so, from being wiser than his neighbours, he was deemed a
conjuror by them.