The Thames and Its Docks: A Lecture (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

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AT the urgent request Of many who have heard this lecture, I have been induced to publish it. I have had considerable hesitation in doing so, be cause, as its structure sufficiently indicates, it was never written with a view to publication. It is a sketch, and nothing more, of a great subject, con densed into a two hours' address. As, however, it contains some curious information Of consider able interest, otherwise difficult Of access, it has been considered worthy Of preservation in its present form. With a view to placing the readers of this lecture, as far as possible, in the position Of hearers Of it, I have accompanied it with some of the rarest and most interesting Of the plans with which it was illustrated. Whatever may be its shortcomings in other respects - and I am con scious they are many - I venture to hope that this feature Of it will prove generally acceptable.

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