These rambling notes but touch the fringe--as it were--of a wide and
ever-widening subject. A lengthy paper might be written on the different
types (and some of great interest) of vanes in and around London alone;
but I trust I may be allowed to express the hope that what has been said
may haply enlist further interest in these silent, faithful, but
somewhat neglected friends of ours, who, "courted by all the winds that
hold them play," look down from their "coigne of vantage" upon the
hurrying world below.
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