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A fhort Defcription of London:

London, the metropolis of Great Britain, including Westminster and Southwark, is a city of a very furprising extent, of prodigious wealth, and of the most extenfive trade; it is at once the largest and richest city in Europe. This city is now what ancient Rome once was; the feat of liberty, the encourager of arts, and the admiration of the whole world.

It is fituated on the banks of the Thames, a river; which, though not the largeft in the world, is of the greateft fervice to its commerce. It being continually filled with fleets, failing to or from the most dif tant climates; and its banks being from Londonbridge to Black wall, almoft one continued great magazine of naval ftores, containing three large wet docks, 32 dry docks, and 33 yards for the building of fhips, for the ufe of the merchants, befide the places allotted for the building of boats and lighters ; and the king's yards lower down the river for building men of war. As this city is about fixty miles diftant from the fea, it enjoys, by means of this river, all the benefits of navigation, without the danger of being surprised by foreign fleets, or of being annoyed by the moift vapours of the fea. It rifes regularly from the water-fide, and extending itself on both fides along its banks, reaches a prodigious length from eaft to weft; furrounded on both fides by a number of large and populous villages, adorned with handfome commodious buildings, the countryfeats of gentlemen and tradefmen; whither the latter retire for the benefit of the fresh air, and to relax their minds from the hurry of business.

* London is fituated in 51° 30' north latitude, 400 miles fouth of Edinburgh, and 270 fouth-eat of Dublin; zoo north-west of Paris, 180 miles weft of Amfterdam, 500 fouth-west of Copenhagen, 600 north-weft of Vienna, 136 north-west of Conftanti nople, 800 north-east of Madrid, 850 north-eaft of Lisbon, and $20 north-west of Rome.

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