Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1891-08-12
rnE nEalNNINe or LoYpOy.
a Town IN TIu MIDST OF MARSHES
WITH sMALL pHOsrEC1s.


Let us 20 back to the beginning Of
all things-to the lay Of the land IN
which London was planted, says
Walter Brsant In Hdfpcr's NoHfhty.
The reader. " he will consult that very
desirable book, "Loflie's History Of
London" will find most instructive
map. IL shows the terrain before the
city was built at oil. The river
THAMES, between Mortlake on the
west aud Blackwell on the east pur.
sued n sorpentiuo way, In the midst OF
marshes stretching north and south.
There were marshes all the way. NJ
spring tides aud nj all tides u little
above the common these marshes were
under water; they were always
swampy and covered with ponde; hali
a dozen tributary brooks flowed snt0
them aud were lost In them. They
varied greatly In breadth, being gen.
orally much broader on the south SIDE
than on the north. On this side the
higher land rose up suddenly IN n
cliu VI steep hill from twenty TO i've
nnd.thlrty feet In height. The clih'
followed from the EAST, approached the
river, touched II ut one point and then
receded again a. II went Westward.
TINS lNlllNs nAAflt Ait VIM bFhAhANHA
the river, was the only place where TIE
city could have been founded.
/ call IL point, but Il consisted OF
two hillochs, each about thirty.hVe feet
high, standing On either sue OF TIE
little stream oil Waibrook, where u
flows into the Thames. On one Of
these hills, probably that on the west,
was small fortress Of the Britons,
I 4 l.s kgeall. n ~ 4
fashion Of hill forts, uumberlcss exam
pies Of which remain scattered ABOUT
| the country. On the other hillock the
Roman city was flrst commenced.
Here was the beginning OF tho city;
here was instituted very carly Terry
over the river. On the eastern hill
the Romans built their forum ana
bnsIllca, with tho offices aud official
houses aud quarters. When fOtelsn
trade began 70 increase tue merchants
were Obliged TO spread themselNr'
along the banks, they built quays nnu
river walls to keep out the water, and
The city extended latctally 10 oast and
west, Just "a far ~ was convenient ioi
the purposes OF trade that Il, mol
farther than Fleet street on Inc yves,
aud the present tower on the east. II
then began 10 sprehd notthWhrd bu,
slowly, because n mite Of river from
can accommodate a great worGing l'opu
lgtiuu.
Whrn the city wall was built, about
the year 800, the town had alrCIl
run out Ia villas and gardens as TAT u
the wall, Outside the wall there wa
nothing at all, unless ono may count
few scattered villas ON the south siu'
Of the river. There was ~ yet ~
Westminster, but Ia It's place broa'
and marshy heath spread over In
whole area now covered ny tue CITY Q
Westminster. Millbanl,, ~. James
Park. aud 40 far west IA Fulham. Bu
You'd the wall on the north lay hreary
un1ultivatcd plans, covered WIN Ten
aud swampH, stretching from tile wall
to the lower slopes OF the not1herl
hills, and even to the foot OF an IN
mcnse forest, as yet wholly untouched
aiterward called tue Middlesex lofes
! Fragments OF this forest yet remain
Hampstead, Highgate, Epping AM
. Hainault. Ina wOrd, all through I'M
period and for long after, the cry o
, London had mn immense marsh YIN
on the west, third on the east, Will
, ON tho north there stretched barrel
hMhtnpy mOOtlhnui luhvN'u " M iii
. mense impenetrabl. forest.
. Later on a portion " the land lynn
ON the northwest, where IA now Hol
) born, was cleared anu cultivated. Bu
this was later, when the Roman road
which went out OF London ran hlgl
and broad over the marshes aud Ia
moors and through the forest primeval
4 Round other great towns there
always u broad bel, Of cultivated Ian
, protected by the wall aud the garrison
Here tho people grow for their own u
+. their grain and their fruit aud pastur
. their beasts and their swine. Londo
a has no such home farm. The caltl
which were driven daily along IN
= roads into the city grnzed ON pastuT,
/. ON Essex farms beyond the forest an
[ the marshes Of the river Lea; the cor
o which filled her markets came dow
1 the river In barges from the milan
D country. All the supplies necessar
!. for tho daily food OF the city wei
/, brought In from the country rouu,
4 should these supplies be cut OIL Loi
r dom would be starved.