This small volume IS MOST RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED ( by permission ) TO THE REV. JOHN ERSKINE CLARKE, M.A., Honorary Canon of Winchester, Vicar of Battersea; AND TO THE INHABITANTS IN GENERAL....

London, after the lapse of centuries, has been compared to an old ship that has been repaired and rebuilt till not one of its original timbers can be found; so marvellous are the changes and transmutations which have come over the " town upon the lake " or, harbour for ships as London was anciently called, that if a Celt, or a Roman, or a Saxon, or a Dane, or a Norman, or a Citizen of Queen Elizabeth's time were to awake from his long slumber of death, he would no more know where he was, and wou

Extracts from a Paper read before the Geologists' Association, March 1st, 1872, by John A. Coombs, Esq. "This section was exposed on a piece of ground recently acquired by the London Gas-light Company for a Gas-holder Station. It is situated to the north of the Prince of Wales' Road, Battersea, between the high-level lines of the London, Brighton, and South-Coast, and the London, Chatham, and Dover Railways, near the point of their separation after crossing the Thames near the Chelsea Suspension

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