. The Antiquarian repertory : a miscellaneous assemblage of topography, history, biography, customs, and manners ; intended to illustrate and preserve several valuable remains of old times. d a thousand fertile fields,which limit it alike towards the west. I would represent the spacesit contains, if my pen had the virtue of Jacobs staff. I will only , that those who have measured them, maintain that they are ofthe same extent as those of Paris; and not to lie, the map points outto us few larger or more populous cities than these. And as it is a sea-port favourable to all nations, profi
. The Antiquarian repertory : a miscellaneous assemblage of topography, history, biography, customs, and manners ; intended to illustrate and preserve several valuable remains of old times. d a thousand fertile fields,which limit it alike towards the west. I would represent the spacesit contains, if my pen had the virtue of Jacobs staff. I will only , that those who have measured them, maintain that they are ofthe same extent as those of Paris; and not to lie, the map points outto us few larger or more populous cities than these. And as it is a sea-port favourable to all nations, profit draws hither, from all parts ofthe world, an infinite number of strangers, who enrich it daily bytheir ordinary commerce. Palaces are very common, and the other houses, built with brickand of a similar structure, embellish the streets where they are situ-ated, although their breadth and long extent make them handsomeof themselves. Among the great number of temples sumptuouslybuilt, those of St. Paul and of Westminster are the most ancient andthe most magnificent. The first is repairing, and at present enlarg-ing aucv., bu,t with so great an expence, Avliere, by the Kings 531 ample, every one is so willing to appear piously generous, accordingto his abilities and zeal, that before the work now began is finished,it will exceed two millions of livres. The other temple is a place destined to serve for a burial-place forkin OS and princes; whence it happens, that there are there to be seena oreat number of sepulchral monuments, of which the magni-ficence, though dismal, equally astonishes and ravishes the mindwith admiration. The fields, the gardens, and the parks, are on one side the nearestlimits of its compass; and on another the Thames, which containsinexpressible beauties, from its great width, its gentle course, and theelegance of the superb building-s erected on its banks, altogetherrender this spot so agreeable, that there are many Avho believe thatits island is
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