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Excerpt from Ports and Docks: Their History, Working, and National Importance As a distributing centre, moreover, its position was unique. The Thames itself, the Medway, and the Lea, afforded facilities for transport near at hand, whilst the city's proximity to the navig able streams of Essex and Suffolk rendered it a convenient source of supply to the inhabitants of the districts which they served. London was so Situated as to be a centre of distribution both for the English Cities of the south and also for the foreign ports across the narrow seas. As such, her advantages received the widest recognition, and the prosperity of the City grew apace. With an important population of her own and within her area of home-supply, and with remark able facilities for distributing amongst the ports of the Continent and of Northern Europe the cargoes brought to her, it was natural that, as in course of time England became the carrier for all the world, so London should become the focus of the world's trade. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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