East London . d At-lantic; the wind of the sea is pure and healthy, the focsleis cheerful, and the wage is good. And so he goes, thisfavorite of fortune. For some strange reason the gates of the docks are al-ways bright and green in spring and summer with trees andVirginia creepers, which are planted at the entrance andgrow over the lodge. Within, flower-beds are visible. Out-side, the cottages for the dock people also have bright andpleasant little front gardens. To the forest of masts, to thebowsprit sticking out over the street, to the ships that arewarped in and out the dock, add the pleas
East London . d At-lantic; the wind of the sea is pure and healthy, the focsleis cheerful, and the wage is good. And so he goes, thisfavorite of fortune. For some strange reason the gates of the docks are al-ways bright and green in spring and summer with trees andVirginia creepers, which are planted at the entrance andgrow over the lodge. Within, flower-beds are visible. Out-side, the cottages for the dock people also have bright andpleasant little front gardens. To the forest of masts, to thebowsprit sticking out over the street, to the ships that arewarped in and out the dock, add the pleasing touch of thetrees and flowers and the creepers before we leave the Isleof Dogs—that unlucky isle, as Pepys called it. The last of the East London riverside hamlets is Black-wall. Where Blackwall begins no one knows. Poplar Sta-tion is in the middle of the place, included in the map withinthe letters which spell Blackwall. And where are the housesof Blackwall ? It is covered entirely with docks. There are. Greenwich Hospital. THE POOL AND THE RIVERSIDE 99 the East India docks and the Poplar docks and the are also half a dozen of the little old repairing docksleft, and there is a railway station with a terrace lookingout upon the river; there is a street running east, and an-other running north. Both streets are stopped by BowCreek; the aspect of both causes the visitor to glance ner-vously about him for a protecting policeman. And here, asregards the riverside, we may stop. Beyond Bow Creek weare outside the limits of London. There follow many moreformer hamlets—West Ham, East Ham, Canning Town,Silverton, and others—now towns. These places, for us,must remain names. LofC. IVTHE WALL IV THE WALL I DO not mean the old wall of London, that which wasbuilt by the Romans, was rebuilt by Alfred, was repairedand maintained at great cost until the sixteenth century,when it began to be neglected, as it was no longer of any usein the defense of the City. For two hundr
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