Engraving depicting the London Docks: covering 100 acres, they could at this time accommodate 500 ships. The warehouses could hold up to 230,000 tons of goods and the tobacco warehouses alone covered 5 acres.

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Photo credit: © World History Archive / Alamy / Afripics
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