_Walpole and Macaulay._--That well-known and beautiful conception of the
New Zealander in some future age sitting on the ruins of Westminster
Bridge, and looking where London stood, may have been first suggested by a
thought in one of Walpole's lively letters to Sir H. Mann:
"At last some curious native of Lima will visit London, and give a
sketch of the ruins of Westminster and St. Paul's."