Excerpt from The Original Picture of London, Enlarged and Improved: Being a Correct Guide for the Stranger, as Well as for the Inhabitant, to the Metropolis of the British Empire; Together With a Description of the Environs If Commerce or Trade be the chief object of inquiry, e will ascertain the seat, and present state of the imports and exports, in the river Thames - the history of the Customs the manufacturing and trading establishments In describing the Bar/zi bitions and various W arts of Art, he is provided with 'a scale by 'which London may be compared with it self atqany previous period, and also with other cities: The review of the present state of Lite rature, will afford also an important subject of parallelism' with other times and other countries. These two subjects in particular, as well as many others, belonging to London, will be found, on inquiry, and when compared with corresponding features in other capitals, to surprise the foreigner and gratify the inhabitant; but the religious and other public edifices of the metropolis, though more numerous than in any modern city of Europe, can not compete in magnitude and architectural grana deurxwith those of Rome, and some other places. London being the focus of Wealth of Fashion -of Legislation of Law of Literature -of the Arts - of Commerce - of Science -of the most intellectual, as 'well as the most depraved and vicious orders of Society, commands the admira tion, but demands the' caution, of the Stranger. He may. Study and examine its present state of unparal leled prosperity with interest and advantage but he will do well to remember, that in such a vast mass of population, assembled from almost every quarter of the globe, there are hypocrites, .sharpers, and rogues of various orders. It is, however, a fvulgar error, to suppose that a foreigner or person from the country, cannot pass through, or reside. In London, without being plundered, or imliosedupon. 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.