Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1873-07-30
EUROPEAN TRAVEL.
London Located on the HOIstOn-Iuierest-
ing Descriptions.

ing Descriptions.
We give below some further extracts we
are permitted to make from the interest
ing letters of prominent East Tennessee
an abroad, written to friend in this city {:
''LONDoN, ENGLAND, |
June IL, 1873. !
DEAR -: | write you line to say
that / start now for Berlin via Antwerp,
Brussels, &c. / am with Col. w. f. Pross-
er and am changing my plans little that
L may have company.
If L have to make a short trip, have
spent all the time / can devote to Great
Britain, except three or four days
on my return. If l stay in
Europe until September or October, L
will have longer to stay here on my re
turn.
L to-day received your letters, dated Goth
May. L had not heard word since left
home.
Gen. Schenck called on me at my hotel
yesterday. l was out. / to-day returned
his call, and he was out. | have got no
papers yet. am leaving England little
earlier than l expected, but perhaps am
going to make short trip.
E-errr COLOGNE, June 10Th 1873.
arrived here yesterday from Brussels.
Attended church to-day in the celebrated
Cathedral of Cologne. Tomorrow hope
TO see the beautiful views and scenery of
the Rhine.
La my last, agreed to give you some
thing of the impressions and ideas which
LONDON AND THE ENGLISH
suggest TO a man from the mountains of
East Tennessee.
l had not fully appreciated the enor-
it. Let me build it on the Holston at
Knoxville and 1 will try to give you an
idea of its size and the relative localities of
important places.
The City of London, - (by which the
English mean the original city that was
! enclosed by a wall III the days when the
Romans occupied it, is about the size of
Knoxville, compactly built, narrow streets,
and here as well as nearly everywhere
through London, is almost perfectly level.
The City" is divided into East and
| West Central, while London has its
Eastern, Northeastern, Southeastern, y
&c, which divides it as counties do a
State. These are subdivided again and the
subdivisions have the same effect as civil
! districts have with us, and are named.
| This is absolutely necessary, for many of
the streets are very short, not at right
angles with each other, and when you find
a street stretching out for a mile or so, it
will at different points have different
names. Hence you would tell your hack
| driver to take you to No. Victoria street
-PimlicO-Southweste
But imagine the grand old
F. DOME OF ST. PAUL's
TO rear its lofty spire about where Cowan
d DiclinsOn's old stand is, then you would
find the Bank of England about the old
| cemetery in East Knoxville, and about the
| McCammOn farm and near the river
would be the Tower, while the docks
| would commence about Col. John Will
liams' farm and Mr.. DickinsOn's island,
extending TO BOyd's ferry, but q continu-
Gus solid city nearly all the way to Me-
Millan's. Victoria Park would be about
LOnas', LincOln's Inn about Judge Tenn
pies, and Westminster Abbey and the
Houses of Parliament on the river and Ag-
ricultural College farm, and st. James Park,
Saint James Palace and buckingham Pal
ace about where the Armstrong residences
are on the Kingston turnpike, Hyde Park
and Kensington gardens stretch away tC
Peter Knots and Gen. Cooper's, while
Chelsea Park and Cremorne Gardens
would lie about Lyons View, Regents
Park out at Hazen's paper mill and the
depots scattered from John Woods farm
TO Fountain Head camp ground. Yet thes'
are all inside the town, which extends
two or three miles, and i'm some places
further, beyond them on all sides, whili
another immense city on the other side o
the Thames, called Southeastern ant
Southwestern London has not yet beef
mentioned.
London shows that the additions TO tn
= city We're each built by some one Of tn