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Excerpt from Westminster: A Historical Sketch Estminster is a modern city. It is true that here are relics Of a varying and often considerable antiquity and here still are oases of a quiet peace that have no part nor interest in the hurried life of the twentieth century, but it is also true that no town has of its own volition so entirely rebuilt its houses, Changed so completely the manner of its streets and highways, or so altered its very geography. For where now are vast buildings was once a thoroughfare, where now are main roads stood once the dwellings of men, while electric trams run over the site Of what in an older day was a broad stretch of river shallows. To recapture something of the genius of the place we must forget a river whose muddy waters run an orderly course between stone embankments, bounds that its highest tide can never overlap, and picture it at its flow flooding into inlets, Spreading over wide marshes and breaking up the now firm mainland into many a small islet. Of these Thornea is the one that most concerns us. It was almost square in Shape and less than forty acres in extent. Its boundaries were determined by the river Tyburn (the Eye Burn) which took its rise near Hampstead. 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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