ENGLAND. 



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View of the Tunnel. 



of the undertaking has caused a sus- 

 pension of its progress, and there are 

 doubts whether it can be completed, 

 owing to the looseness of the soil which 

 remains to be worked. Should the 

 tunnel he finished, it wonld exhibit a 

 work without a parallel either in an- 

 cient or modern times. The engraving 

 below will show the manner in which 

 the tunnel is proposed to pass under 

 the river, should it ever be completed. 



The wet docks, or basins of water 

 surrounded with warehouses for mer- 

 chandise, are on a scale commensurate 

 with the wealth and grandeur of the 

 metropolis of the world. The West 

 India docks alone, with their basins, 

 rover an extent of 68 acres, excavated 

 by human labor, and, in- 

 cluding the warehouses 

 and quays attached, cov- 

 er an area of 140 acres. 

 The East India, London, 

 and St. Catherine's docks 

 are also extensive, but 

 inferior in size to the 

 first mentioned. 



The j)rincipal institit- 

 tiorre for education are 

 King's College, West- 

 minster School, Christ's 

 Hospital or the Blue Coat School, &c. 

 No city in the world has so great a number 

 of learned societies, and literary and sci- 

 entific establishments, and none can com- 

 pare with London in its charities for the 

 poor, the sick, the ignorant, and the suf- 

 fering. Asylums, hospitals, relief socie- 

 ties, chai'ity schools, and philanthrojiic 

 associations of every form, combine the 

 efibrts of the benevolent to alleviate human 

 misery. Tiie Bi'itish Museum is one of ihe 

 richest collections in the world, compris- 

 ing works of art, cabinets of natural sci- 

 ence, and the largest and most valuable 

 library in Great Britain. 

 London has 13 theatres, of which Drury Lane, Covent Garden, and the King's theatre 

 or Italian Opera, are among the first in Europe. It has 147 hospitals ; 16 schools of medi- 

 cine ; as many of h\v ; 5 of theology ; J 8 public libraries ; 300 elementary free schools ; 

 1,700 dispensaries, where the poor receive medicine and attendance gratis ; 14 prisons ; 

 and .50 newspapers, printing 50,000 daily. 15,000 vessels lie at a time, in the docks and 

 at the wharves ; 1,500 carriages a day leave the city at stated hours ; 4,000 wagons are 

 employed in the country trade ; the annual commerce of the city is estimated at £ 130,000,000 

 sterling. 



The water works, for supplying the inhabitants with water, are calculated to excite wonder 

 at their magnitude. The streets are perforated by upwards of 350 miles of main pipes, 

 through which a daily supply of 30 million gallons of water from the Thames and the New 

 River is furnished. The city is lighted with gas, which Is conveyed through nearly 400 



Manlier in which the Tunnel is to pass yrAer the Ricer. 



St. Cut/icrinc's Ducks. 



