Under the assumed name of a Portuguese traveller, an anonymous writer describes London as it stood in 1731: its streets and squares, churches and palaces, markets, hospitals and prisons, the Thames and its bridges, and the elaborate machinery of the City’s government, down to the common hunt and the water bailiff. The account first appeared in the Harleian collection of voyages.
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