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preventing the trouble ©f returning back again on the other 

 fide of the ftreet from that already pafled, to find a particular 

 number^ which often happens, where the old method of 

 numbering is ufed, from the order of the numbers proceeding 

 regularly down one fide of the ftreet, and back again in the 

 reverfed direction on the other ; and which, when the ftreets 

 are very long, as many are in this metropolis, is often at- 

 tended with ferious inconvenience ; but in the new method ot 

 numbering, this can never occur, as in it the numbers pro- 

 ceed in the order of progreftipn in the fame direction at both 

 Tides of the ftreet. 



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