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The indubitably pseudonymous Pro.f Blyde Muddersnook's account of excavations in the ruins of Lund-Dun, published in Strand Magazine (reprinted online here):
…These ruins are now all that is left of the once famous Cockni cathedral of St. Paul's. It was a superb day in early autumn when we halted to survey the scene, and my talented friend, Dr. Tite Opkins, took up his post on one of the shattered arches, in order to make a sketch of the ruins. Another colleague, Mr. Mustard Snip, proceeded to make some solar prints of the immediate neighbourhood, which is one much haunted by bitterns.

Prof. Blyde Muddersnook, P.O.Z.A.S. (1911) "When the Zealander Comes" in Strand Magazine, September 1911.

This passage, and indeed the whole account of the archaeological expedition to Lun-Dun, is a reference to a quotation from Lord Macaulay:
And she may still exist in undiminished vigour when some traveller from New Zealand shall, in the midst of a vast solitude, take his stand on a broken arch of London Bridge to sketch the ruins of St. Paul's.

Thomas Babington Macaulay ''Essay, On Ranck's History of the Popes'' 1840.


(See pages on The Zealander, Humour and the Elusiveness of the Past, and London.)
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