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INTRODUCTORY HINTS AND
SUGGESTIONS.


1. Situation.—2. Population.—3. Statistics of Consumption, &c.—4. Political and Municipal Divisions.—5. Social Divisions—the West End.—6. The City.—7. Great Thoroughfares running East and West.—8. Ditto running North and South.—9. Railway Stations.—10. How to see London quickly.—11. How to see London leisurely.—12. Its Six great Architectural Centres.—13. The Parks.—14. The Silent Highway and its Bridges.—15. A Sail from "the Pool" to Gravesend.—16. A Sail from Hampton Court to Westminster Bridge.—17. General Hints to Strangers.—18. Cabs.—19. Omnibuses.—20. Letters.—21. Where to Lodge.—22. Where to Dine and Sup.—23. Theatres and Operas.—24. Places at which Panoramas and Miscellaneous Exhibitions are shown.—25. Performances of Interest to the Musician.—26. Objects of Interest to the Painter and Connoisseur.—27. To the Sculptor.—28. To the Architect and Engineer.—29. To the Antiquarian.—30. Places and Sights which a Stranger must see.—31. Remarkable Places near London which a Stranger should see.—32. Laws relating to Foreigners.—33. Newspapers.—34. Geology and Soil.—35. Studios of the Principal Artists.—36. Contemplated Metropolitan Improvements.

London, the Metropolis of Great Britain and Ireland, is situated upon the River Thames, about fifty miles from its mouth; the northern and larger portion lying in the counties of Middlesex and Essex, the southern in Surrey and Kent. By the Metropolis Local Management Act of 1855 (18 & 19 Vict. c. 120) the Metropolis is held to include the cities and liberties of London and Westminster, the borough of Southwark, and the parishes, precincts, townships, and places mentioned in a Schedule attached to the Act, in-

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