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BEING AN ACCURATE

HISTORY AND DESCRIPTION

OF THE

BRITISH METROPOLIS

AND ITS

NEIGHBOURHOOD,

то

THIRTY MILES EXTENT,

From an actual Perambulation.

By DAVID HUGHSON, LL. D.

VOL. I.

Nurse of Art! The CITY rear'd

In beauteous Pride her Tower encircled Head,
And, stretching Street on Street, by Thousands drew,
From twining woody Haunts, or the tough Yew-
To bows strong straining, her aspiring Sons.

Then Commerce brought into the public Walk
The busy Merchant; the big Warehouse built;
Rais'd the strong Crane; choak'd up the loaded Street
With Foreign Plenty; and thy Stream, O Thames,
Large, gentle, deep, majestic, King of Floods!
Chose for his grand Resort!

THOMSON.

LONDON:

PRINTED BY W. STRATFORD, CROWN-COURT, TEMPLE-BAR, FOR

J. STRATFORD, No. 112, HOLBORN-HILL;

AND SOLD BY ALL OTHER BOOKSELLERS.

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Taken by permission of the Proprietors of Ivititions History of England from a drawing by R.Corbould.

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TO THE

KING'S

MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY.

SIRE,

WITH humble Duty the

Proprietor and Author of the History, Antiquities, and Modern State of the Metropolis of your United Kingdom, submit the Fruit of their Labours to your Majesty's gracious Protection, as the Head of the glorious Constitution;-the Promoter of British Commercethe Patron of Arts and Manufactures-and, above all, the King and Father of a great and free People; in the fullest Confidence, that all Works tending to promote Utility and Information are certain of your Majesty's benign Patronage,

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