DESCRIPTION OF THE FRONTISPIECE ILLUSTRATING 
LONDON. 
THE CITY OF LONDON, ALLEGORICALLY PORTRAYED WITH THE MURAL CROWN 
ON HER HEAD, THE CAP OF LIBERTY IN ONE HAND AND THE CORNUCOPIA IN THE 
OTHER, STANDS IN HER TRIUMPHAL CAR, ADORNED WITH THE TWO DRAGONS HER 
SUPPORTERS, AND DRAWN BY FOUR STEEDS; WHILST AMERICA AND AFRICA ON HER 
RIGHT, AND ASIA ON HER LEFT, BRING TO HER THE TRIBUTES OF THE WORLD, 
ON THE FOREGROUND A YOUNG GENIUS HpLDS THE SHIELD OF THE CITY ARMS 
AND THE MACE OF CIVIC AUTHORITY. BEHIND ARE SEEN PART OF THE MANSION- 
HOUSE, THE MONUMENT, AND SHIPPING. 
