London . [?Westminstei- Bridge, 1842.] LVL—WESTMINSTER BRIDGE. The metropolitan world of the present and the latter half of the last centuryseems to have been seized with a very sudden and sweeping determination to getrid of a variety of circumstances which however annojing or mischievous inthemselves, had been borne most patiently by our forefathers from time imme-morial. It is truly surj^rising to walk through the principal thoroughfares ofLondon and mark how entirely everything in the shape of street magnificence,street cleanliness, or street comfort that meets the eye, belongs to the exist
London . [?Westminstei- Bridge, 1842.] LVL—WESTMINSTER BRIDGE. The metropolitan world of the present and the latter half of the last centuryseems to have been seized with a very sudden and sweeping determination to getrid of a variety of circumstances which however annojing or mischievous inthemselves, had been borne most patiently by our forefathers from time imme-morial. It is truly surj^rising to walk through the principal thoroughfares ofLondon and mark how entirely everything in the shape of street magnificence,street cleanliness, or street comfort that meets the eye, belongs to the existing orthe preceding generation. Let accident or necessity take us where innovationhas not 3et appeared,—to any of those spots or districts, growing smaller andfewer every day, which yet preserve for our instruction a few glimpses of theoverhanging houses, the alley-like streets, the din, the danger, and the filth sur-rounding the whole like another atmosphere, which so recently characterisedLondon g
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