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91 blackened with the atmosphere, so as to resemble the abodes of many previous ge- nerations. In those days, too, the south bank of the Thames supplied its adjacent counties with merchandize; and a journey (for such it might be called) to Tyburn, then resembled the passage from Dover to Calais, or a steam voyage across the Atlan- tic, in our age ; so rapid, but imperceptible, are the strides and changes which art and time effect in the intellectual habits of a great portion of mankind. At the ...period to which I have alluded, the above district was more like a large market or county town, than a part of the metropolis ; and thousands were born, and died there, with- out ever migrating three miles north, east, or west, which, on the other hand, charac- terises the minds of a different class of thinkers. Waggons were the ordinary con- veyances, — and coaches, which were then considered as triumphs of locomotive skill, both in construction and pace, would cut but a sorry figure with a modern Brighton outfit, 92 VILLAGE CHARACTER.
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