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sent by the Penny Post, which is established at several 

 places in London, and one pays for it one penny, when it 

 quickly and safely reaches its destination, snart OCh 

 sakert kommer fort. Besides this, there are 

 certain men who, every day, when the Post is going to 

 start from London to any place, go round with small 

 bells, which they ring. Anyone who has a letter to send 

 to the Post, can give them to such a man, when he for 

 one penny safely carries it to the Post, which is a great 

 convenience in this large town, where many have over 

 half a mile to walk to the Post-house. 



[Water-supply by bored-tree-stem-pipes.] 



About the advantage of having sufficient water at 

 home in one's own kitchen by means of pipes made of 

 bored stems of trees, pip-stackar, which bring the 

 water there underground ;* about the streets, which at the 

 sides are laid with smooth flat stones with posts at the 

 outside, within which people walk quite safe from all 

 vehicles and horses; about the links, lycktor, which 

 everywhere in the larger streets are lighted at dusk 

 uptandas i skymningen, and burn the whole night, 

 together with many other useful institutions, I have either 

 told before, or am going to speak further on. 



The gth June, 1748. 



Vaux-Hall. In the evening I went with some of my 



* Several of which were to be seen in 1885 lying as excavated at the 

 northern end of Shaftesbury Avenue close to Oxford Street, of different sizes, 

 some very large and others quite small , mains and branches. In ' ' Hydraulia, " 

 By Wm. Matthews, Lond., 1835, 8vo., pp. 66-68, is some interesting 

 information respecting these wooden pipes from which I extract the following. 

 The trees were elm ; at one time the New River Company alone had 400 

 miles of wooden pipes, which were entirely renewed in the course of every 20 

 years. The bore varied from 3 to 6 or 7 inches, and a few near the Reservoirs 

 10 or 12 inches. Between 1810 and 1820 the whole of the New River Com- 

 pany's wooden pipes were replaced by iron ones. [J, L.] 



