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Title: Old and new London : a narrative of its history, its people, and its places
Year: 1873 (1870s)
Authors: Thornbury, Walter, 1828-1876
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Publisher: London : Cassell, Petter, & Galpin
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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a flight of steps which once led down into thewater. Mr. Charles Knight adds :— Immediatelyopposite the steps was a door connected with avaulted passage, still existing below: and towardsthe back of three houses in Surrey Street, andcontinuing from thence upwards in the direction-of. Southern Tributaries.) JACOB TONSON. 79 the Strand. These vaults have some remarkablefeatures ; among others, there is a low arch of a verypeculiar form, the rounded top projecting graduallyforward beyond the line of its sides, in the houseimmediately behmd the bath. The bath is per-petually supplied from tbs spring, and dischargesat the rate of ten tons per day. The water in this through the sandy bottom, and its flow is prettyeven, both winter and summer. There are nopipes which supply it; and as it has in no waybeen affected by the excavations for the LawCourts, nor for the Underground Railway, whichruns along the Embankment; it is clearly natural,and not artiticial, and sparkles as clear as crystd.
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GOLDEN BUILDINGS. (ScV/>c7^^t jy.) old Roman bath, which is beautifully clear andextremely cold, is now used solely for drinking ;there is, h.owever, another bath-room on the rightof the passage by which we entered, which is usedas a plunging bath, and is open all the year round.This new bath, the proprietor tells us, was builtby the Earl of Essex, in the reign of Queen Eliza-beth, 1588. The source of the water whichsupplies this bath is unknown. It bubbles up It may as well be mc tioned here, though wehave not tra\elled quite as far westward yet, thatat No. 141 in the Strand, between St. MarysChurch and the corner of Wellington Street, on asite now covered by part of Somerset House, wasthe book-shop of Jacob Tonson, the friend andpublisher of Pope, &:c. Hither he removed fromGrays Inn Gateway in 1712, and the shop wasknown by the sign of the ■Sh.akespeares Head. So OLD AND NEW LONDON. (Die Strand: It is described as being over against CatherineStreet The subsequent history o

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