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150 TALLIS'S ILLUSTRATED LONDON;
features of the streets in its vicinity. The opening from
the centre of Pall-mall is effective in the highest degree,
from the combination of agreeable objects, which please
the eye, and are in accordance with severe taste. To the
south of Regent-street, at its union with Waterloo-pi ace,
stands the York Column, on the extensive area of Carlton-
terrace, from which eminence we look down on the sylvan
promenades of St. James's Park; and the scenic effect is
heightened by the spires and turrets of those costly acces-
sories in the back ground—Westminster Abbey and Hall,
and the New Palace of the Legislature. Regent-street,
viewed from its Coventry-street approach, has a very
imposing air. Although the colonnade and its pillars,
whence this part of the street was called the Quadrant,
have disappeared, still, the extensive view of elaborately
ornamented houses, excites an admiration which, perhaps,
no other street in Europe can elicit. Another principal
point in- which Regent-street may be advantageously seen,
is at the union, formed north, east, west, and south, by
the intersection of that street with Oxford-street, the
spot thus environed being called Regent Circus: Here
Regent-street, with its white facades, exhibits its breadth
and principal length. Here, at one glance, we witness
the character and associations of the street, an excursion
to which is inseparably connected with the idea of recre-
ation. Before advancing further, it may be proper briefly
to glance at the former neighbourhood of a street which
has no superior in the world. That affluent and aristocratic
district, which is now vertebrated by Regent-street, so
recently as 1810, was encompassed by dirty, poor-looking
streets, of which Swallow-street was one. A grand
opening to the north having been decided upon, it was
commenced- opposite Carlton House, Pall-mall, the palace
of the Prince of Wales, and thence carried forward,
crossing Jermyn-street and Piccadilly; inclining to the
north-west, it reached Mary-le-bone-street near the end
of Glasshouse-street, and absorbiug almost the whole of
Swallow-street, traversed Oxford-street, and passed to the
features of the streets in its vicinity. The opening from
the centre of Pall-mall is effective in the highest degree,
from the combination of agreeable objects, which please
the eye, and are in accordance with severe taste. To the
south of Regent-street, at its union with Waterloo-pi ace,
stands the York Column, on the extensive area of Carlton-
terrace, from which eminence we look down on the sylvan
promenades of St. James's Park; and the scenic effect is
heightened by the spires and turrets of those costly acces-
sories in the back ground—Westminster Abbey and Hall,
and the New Palace of the Legislature. Regent-street,
viewed from its Coventry-street approach, has a very
imposing air. Although the colonnade and its pillars,
whence this part of the street was called the Quadrant,
have disappeared, still, the extensive view of elaborately
ornamented houses, excites an admiration which, perhaps,
no other street in Europe can elicit. Another principal
point in- which Regent-street may be advantageously seen,
is at the union, formed north, east, west, and south, by
the intersection of that street with Oxford-street, the
spot thus environed being called Regent Circus: Here
Regent-street, with its white facades, exhibits its breadth
and principal length. Here, at one glance, we witness
the character and associations of the street, an excursion
to which is inseparably connected with the idea of recre-
ation. Before advancing further, it may be proper briefly
to glance at the former neighbourhood of a street which
has no superior in the world. That affluent and aristocratic
district, which is now vertebrated by Regent-street, so
recently as 1810, was encompassed by dirty, poor-looking
streets, of which Swallow-street was one. A grand
opening to the north having been decided upon, it was
commenced- opposite Carlton House, Pall-mall, the palace
of the Prince of Wales, and thence carried forward,
crossing Jermyn-street and Piccadilly; inclining to the
north-west, it reached Mary-le-bone-street near the end
of Glasshouse-street, and absorbiug almost the whole of
Swallow-street, traversed Oxford-street, and passed to the