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walls of the city, where a grated inclosure of competent 

 breadth (for a mile in length) might have served for 

 an universal ccemetery, to all the parishes, distinguish'd 

 by the like separations, and with ample walks of trees ; 

 the walks adorn'd with monuments, inscriptions and 

 titles apt for contemplation and memory of the de- 

 funct ; and that wise, and ancient law of the xn Tables 

 restor'd and reviv'd : But concerning this, and hor- 

 tulan buryings upon this and other weighty reasons, 

 see cap. i. book iv. Happy in the mean time, had 

 it been for the further purgation of this august 

 metropolis, had they there, (or did they yet) banish 

 and proscribe those hellish vulcanos, disgorging from 

 the brew-houses, sope and salt-boilers, chandlers, hat- 

 makers, glass-houses, forges, lime-kilns, and other 

 trades, using such quantities of sea-coals, one of whose 

 funnels vomits more smoak than all the culinary and 

 chamber-fires of a whole parish, as I have (with 

 no small indignation) observed, at what time they 

 usually put out their fires, on Saturday evening, and 

 re-kindle on Sunday night, or Monday morning ; 

 perniciously infecting the ambient air, with a black 

 melancholy canopy, to the detriment of the most 

 valuable moveables and furniture of the inhabitants, 

 and the whole countrey about it. A bar of iron 

 shall be more exeded and consum'd with rust in one 

 year in this city, than in thrice-seven in the countrey : 

 Why might it not therefore be worth a severe and 

 publick edict, to remove these vulcanos and infernal 

 houses of smoak to competent distance ; some down 

 the river, others (which require conveniency of fresh- 

 water) up the Thames, among the streams about 

 Wandsworth, &c ? Their commodities and manu- 

 factures brought up to capacious wharfs, on the bank, 



