London in 1856 (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from London in 1856 London, the Metropolis of Great Britain and Ireland which Cobbett called "the great Wen, " and Carlyle "the tuberosity of modern civilization, " and another writer "a province covered with houses, " is situated upon the River Thames, about 50 miles from its mouth, the N. and larger portion lying in the counties of Middlesex and Essex, the S. in Surrey and Kent. The Metropolis includes the cities and liberties of London and Westminster, the borough of Southwark, and 36 adjacent parishes, precincts, townships, and places, including among others the extreme points of Hampstead, Islington, Stoke Newington, and Hackney to the north, Stratford-le-Bow, Limehouse, Deptford, Greenwich, Woolwich, Charlton, and Plumstead to the east, Camberwell and Streatham to the south, and Kensington, Fulham, and Hammersmith, to the west. The site is generally healthy, the subsoil being, for the most part, gravel. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.