"His first impressions of London were as gloomy as fog, smoke, and dingy brick buildings could make them; in addition to this, the question which his own judgment now put to him, " What do you intend to do in England '" absolutely startled him as not having before occurred;—the sum of a hundred pounds in hand constituted his whole worldly wealth. "
P.B. "The Life of the Rev. Joseph Blanco White" in The Westminster Review, No.LXXXVII, December 1845, p.145