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Show Till! IILIIINMv.ll U1'I0II0. A TOWN IN Till' MIU1T Ol" MAIlSllla Villi Hlltll, llUjBl'lOlfl. t.et ii go back lothobaglnnlnjof all tllluga lu Hie lay of tho land In which laondon una plantad, ant Walter HimiiI In nrr' ManlUj. The rcada r, If ho will consult tint vary aleslrabtit book, "Ixiflle'a History of aotsalois." wilt find a moat Instructive map. It ahowathetarrnln la-furo the city waa built at all. Thu river Ihami", between Mortltko on the west nud illackwcll on thu a art, pur nucdnrtrieiitiiiu wny, In Ihomldtt af marahi tiratchlng north aud ejuth. Theinwriu u.aralie all tho way. At airing tide and at all tldaa a little above the onlillnou thane nmlsliae wale under water: they werai alwny wampy and cuMieal with iwnds; half a dozen tributary brook llowi-u into them and were luit In thim. Tiny vnrlnl greatly lu breadth, being generally gen-erally much broader on the aoulli aide than on the north. (In tlila sldu the higher laud rose up suddenly lu a chU'erslaiplillllrom twauly lo live, ami-thirty Icet In height. The dill, followed trom Iheraat, npproarluil the river, touched It at one i-olnt and Ih-n mdeil again as II weutwealward. Thl lolnt, where the tllll overhung the river, wu the only pluiu here the city could liavu been founded. 1 call It a iiolul, but It consisted of twn hillocks, each about thllly-llve feat hlgh,UudlliK ou either ldu cl the Utile amain uf Wall.rook, whero It llowa Into tho Thauin. On olio of then hllla, proUbly that on tho west, waa a imall fortress of the llrltooa, eonHruclail after the wall known faahlouof hill foru, liuinbcllrasexaui-platior liuinbcllrasexaui-platior which remain scattered about ihu country. Un the other hillock thu Human cliy wmllrst cuinnuncid. Here wa thu U ginning of tho city; lieieMajiluttllulid vary a all)' afciry uver the river. On tno eastern hill the llomana built their forum and baelllca, wltll lho utllcis and olllclal holme and ipiaiter. When fotclgu Hade tiegnn to lucreaao tho merchant wiro ubllgol to spread lhcmelvi aloiutheluliks; they built iuayaml river wall tukiep out tho water, and the city ixlllldeU laterally to cast and west, just aafar a was ironvrnlelit for the iHirputi of trade that Is, not farther than l'iect eticvt uu lho went aud thu pioeeiit Uiwer oulhea-"al. It then liegaii to aprrnd noilhward but slowly, iKcauaoa mile of river front can accomodate a groat working Jiojai When the city wall wo built, about thujear 1VW, tue town had alra ely run out In villas aud garden a far n thu all. Oultl.li. thu all there w aa nolhlugatall, unlasaonumay uuunl a few acntla red villa un the south eld of lho river. There wa. a yel no Waatmlualer, but lu lit I lace abroad and marahy heath spread over Ihe whole aiea uow covered by Ihe illy or Weatuiluatur, Mlllbauk, rit. James' Talk, and su far weal aa l'lilliani. lie vend the wall ou tho nortli lajilrrary, uncultlviited plans, covered wllh fen and ewanie,iu tcnlug Irom tho wall luthe lower elopc-1 of Ihu uoilhirn hills, and etui to the foot of au Immune Im-mune loreit.aa jet wholly untouched, afterward calleil Ihe Middlesex lurtat Kragmtuta of thl foreat it remain a llampatiied, Hlgligate, i:p(lng and Haluaull. Ilia worJ, all through thla period end for loug after, lire City of Ixmdou had au Immense marall I) lug ou Ihe west, a third on tho taat, w hllu on the norm there stretched a tamii awampy moorland, followed ty an lm-meiisulminueirableforeal. lm-meiisulminueirableforeal. Lata r on a ortlon of Ihe laud 1) Ing ou tho northwest, where la now Jlol. born, nil cleared nnil cultivated. Hut thl wu lattr, whin the lUiuau roala which went out or Loudon ran high and broad uva r the maraha aud the moor and through the form rlmeval. Itouud other great town Ihcro 1 alaabroadbeltof cultivated laud I rolcned by the wall uuJ the gaitlaon. Hi ru Ihu people grow for their own use their grain aud their fruit and ueture their beast and their wlne. l.imJon hu no tuch home larm. Thu callle which were driven dally along lho roade Into the city graicd on paaturea uu i:uex farm beyoud the forest and thu mnrahc of the river I.ea; the corn which tilled her market cauie down the titer III barge's from tho Inland country. All the mppllt necessary for Ihe dally food uf thu city weiu brought In from tho country round. Hhould these suppllea be cut oil Lou clou would lie atarvrd. |