Genre:

News-Commentary, Drollery

Subjects:

Geology, Discovery

    Reports on a discovery by 'some scientific gentleman' that London rests on a 'sort of clay-pit' which, if dried, would lead to the city tumbling 'through into the Antipodes'. Accordingly advises Londoners to 'swap their kitchens once a week' and regards the fluid foundations of the British and Foreign Institute to be a 'good omen of its stability'.