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and he is still on the Northern line; on this line, and almost at its
commencement, his attention will be at once arrested by the handsome
and elegant building—an object of high interest—Columbia Square and
its Market, with its spacious premises; from Gloucester Place, however,
in Hackney Road, the line diverges upon the left, and Gloucester Place,
with the streets running parallel as far as the Cambridge Road, and the
Regent's Canal, and a small portion on the extreme side, viz., Baden
Place, and he will here see the gas-holders of the Imperial Gas Light
Company. Pursuing his tour along the Hackney Road to Prospect Place
and the Bishop's Road, he still includes a few streets upon his left, but
arrives in his path at our Workhouse, and the junctions of Bishop's and
Approach Roads.
Here our pedestrian friend may pause, and behold the City of London
Hospital for Diseases of the Chest, a noble structure raised by the
munificence of liberal hands and generous hearts, for the treatment of a
disease at once the most formidable in the sad catalogue of human
afflictions—a withering scourge and bane to humanity, and for which
no antidote has hitherto been vouchsafed to mankind.
Starting once again, and from this point, the traveller will wend his
way through that most interesting and elegant part of our domain— emphatically
and graphically one of the lungs of this huge metropolis—
Victoria Park, the entire of which first park, and about half the second, is
included within the circle of our limits ; and about the central point of
the latter park he will perceive the boundary-stone, or landmark, of
Bethnal Green. Here our pedestrian friend may rest awhile, and resuming
his journey in a southerly direction, he crosses Duckett's Canal,
and arrives at the Old Ford Road—Foresters' Bridge ; and at Ellesmere
Road he reaches the furthermost confines to our Parish. Included
within this space hereabout, a large portion of the Roman Road (generally
designated Bow), Palmer's brick field, and Grove Road, as far as the
railway arch, are also comprehended within this line. Returning from
thence to the Cambridge Heath Road, the Great Eastern Railroad
will constitute the boundary in that direction. With the face towards
the Mile End Road, our walking friend will find John and Thomas
Streets on his left, as also Purim Place, and the line of shops
extending to the spot where Mile End Gate once stood, which was in its
day also circumvented by our borders. Here again, a small portion of