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bankrnent ; and it would never do for us to pass it 

 without special notice. Its marine wall of great 

 chiselled granite blocks supports, on the north side of 

 the river, a broad thoroughfare, which forms one of 

 the most pleasant promenades in London. The total 

 cost of the embankment was over 3,000,000 sterling ; 

 or SI 5, 000,000. 



We next pass Waterloo Bridge, which is second in 

 cost of erection to the present London Bridge, the 

 former costing 1,000,000 sterling, the latter nearly 

 one and a half millions. Let us look for a moment or 

 two at the enormous traffic over these bridges. Over 

 London Bridge there pass daily, both ways, 157,886 

 pedestrians and 21,466 vehicles. Over Blackfriar's, 

 87,134 pedestrians and 14,584 vehicles. Over South - 

 wark Bridge, 30,090 foot passengers and 3,560 vehi- 

 cles, making, in round numbers for these three 

 bridges only, 275,000 pedestrians and 40,000 vehicles. 

 Past Waterloo Bridge there stands, at the very edge 

 of the Embankment, Cleopatra's Needle, so near that 

 you can read the inscription upon it, if you are up in 

 hieroglyphics. After passing Charing Cross Bridge, 

 by looking up Northumberland Street, we may see 

 again Trafalgar Square and Nelson's Monument, which 

 we visited yesterday. 



We have now arrived at a very important part of 



