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Show 8 AYS OXEN LAID OUT LONDON, Swayed at .They Plowed, Hence the Crooked Streett, Lord Avebury has suggested an explanation ex-planation of tho crooked streets which have puzzled so miny visitors to London. Lon-don. Presiding at the first of a series of addresses on tho history of this city, he said It was romarkablo how tho London of to-day bore traces of It ancient history. Botweon London and Westmlnstor thero wore formerly open fields divided di-vided Into. long strips of an ncro each. These Btrlps, ho said, had a tendency to curvature owing, to tho( way In whioh tho oxen walked while plowing tho ground. An instance of that was seen In tho curious way In which Longacre curved. Several of the strips abutted at right angles on Hydo park, and the fact that they did not end fn ono.llne.suggested a reason for tho Blngular Irregularity of the lino of houseB forming Park lane; The dip In Piccadilly, added . Lord Avebury, was tho site of the old stream, part of . which formed tho Sorpentlno. |