Memoirs of a Social Atom, Vol. 2 (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Memoirs of a Social Atom, Vol. 2Temple Bar was a picturesque obstruction, the Adelphi Arches gave shelter to homeless hundreds and the River Thames was an open sewer. Long stretches of filthy slime, the playground of mud larks, were exposed at every falling tide, and gave of? Such evil odours in hot weather that people had to hold their noses when they crossed the bridges. There was a threat of pestilence as a consequence. And then the authorities, seeing that something must be done, conceived a great sewerage scheme, and replaced the foul Shores with that pride and glory of London - the Thames Embankment. Other improvements - the construction of Holborn Viaduct, the widening of many thoroughfares, but, above all, the sweeping away of pestilential rookeries, such as the Seven Dials - have made the metropolis a far sweeter and handsomer city in the twentieth century than it was in the middle of the nineteenth.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.