Living London; its work and its play, its humour and and its pathos, its sights and its scenes; . ILE ABOVE TRAFALGAR SQUARE. BALLUUMNG LONDON. 35- faded out in an irregular fringe somewherein the middle distance, and far beyond otherclustered lights shimmered in the sky, mark-ing distant Kentish towns—Rochester ma\-be,or Maidstone. The far left, on the otherhand, over Essex marshes, was comparati\el\-blank. But all beneath iis lay an enchanted city,extending for miles and miles, a very mazeof lights ; with roadways in dark lines, fringedwith pavements shining white like frostedsilver. And \-e
Living London; its work and its play, its humour and and its pathos, its sights and its scenes; . ILE ABOVE TRAFALGAR SQUARE. BALLUUMNG LONDON. 35- faded out in an irregular fringe somewherein the middle distance, and far beyond otherclustered lights shimmered in the sky, mark-ing distant Kentish towns—Rochester ma\-be,or Maidstone. The far left, on the otherhand, over Essex marshes, was comparati\el\-blank. But all beneath iis lay an enchanted city,extending for miles and miles, a very mazeof lights ; with roadways in dark lines, fringedwith pavements shining white like frostedsilver. And \-et it was trulv and uiimistak- a patch of the Milky Way had fallen on theearth. But the balloonists survey of Londonwould be incomplete without a nearer view,and, though in these days a perfect webof electric wires is seen to be spread overall parts of the town, making it doublyhazardous to approach the roofs, yet it some-times happens that a balloon, dipping nearthe house-tops, may be allowed to skim lowfor a little while in certain quarters, affordingsuch a close scrutiny of the town as no. A CORNER OK A FACTORY ably London. There were the well-knownopen spaces, each a broad flood of light,framed by black blocks of buildings ; , Trafalgar Square, the West-Endcircuses, the broad, bright thoroughfares ofClub-land,the lesser lights of riverside London;and winding through it all a gap of utterblackness, streaked with bars of reflectedlight, and bridged in places with double rowsof lamps, where silent Thames was on and on for miles we floated over thefair) scene, till the lights below frayed outin lines and patches, and lost themselvesin open country. Our last view of Londonere dawn broke was a broad distant track,studded with faint points of light, as though141 creatures, save, perhaps, the pigeons, majenjoy. This is a rare and extraordinary-experience for the aeronaut which comesas a surprise. His actual high speed oftravel, perhaps twenty mile
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