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yeoman-porter exclaims—" God save Queen Victoriaj" a
prayer to which the guards ejaculate a loud "Amen."
The keys are then returned to the governor's house.
The Tower measures within the walls 12 acres and 5
rods; its circumference, on the outside of the ditch, is
1052 feet. This citadel is governed by a constable, an
office which has long been held by the Duke of Welling-
ton. Strangers may easily obtain entrance to the most
attractive apartments in the Tower for a trifling fee. And
now, quitting the Tower with more facility than has at-
tended the departure of many of its previous inmates, we
resume our river-progress.
CHAPTER IX.
THE THAMES—concluded.
THE PORT OF LONDON—THE POOL.
That portion of the river in which we now find ourselves,
is crowded with shipping of all descriptions, merchant-
vessels, collier-ships, home and foreign steam-boats, &c,
extending from London Bridge to Deptford, and is called
the Port of London. This part of the Thames is divided
into the Upper, Middle, and Lower Pools, besides the space
between Limehouse and Deptford. The limits of the
Port of London are reckoned from the North Foreland in
the Isle of Thanet, and thence northward in an imaginary
line across the sea to an opposite point called the Nase,
on the Esses coast, and continued westward up the
Thames, and the several channels, falling into it, to
London Bridge. The average width of the water way in
the Pools is from 400 to 500 feet. We have previously
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yeoman-porter exclaims—" God save Queen Victoriaj" a
prayer to which the guards ejaculate a loud "Amen."
The keys are then returned to the governor's house.
The Tower measures within the walls 12 acres and 5
rods; its circumference, on the outside of the ditch, is
1052 feet. This citadel is governed by a constable, an
office which has long been held by the Duke of Welling-
ton. Strangers may easily obtain entrance to the most
attractive apartments in the Tower for a trifling fee. And
now, quitting the Tower with more facility than has at-
tended the departure of many of its previous inmates, we
resume our river-progress.
CHAPTER IX.
THE THAMES—concluded.
THE PORT OF LONDON—THE POOL.
That portion of the river in which we now find ourselves,
is crowded with shipping of all descriptions, merchant-
vessels, collier-ships, home and foreign steam-boats, &c,
extending from London Bridge to Deptford, and is called
the Port of London. This part of the Thames is divided
into the Upper, Middle, and Lower Pools, besides the space
between Limehouse and Deptford. The limits of the
Port of London are reckoned from the North Foreland in
the Isle of Thanet, and thence northward in an imaginary
line across the sea to an opposite point called the Nase,
on the Esses coast, and continued westward up the
Thames, and the several channels, falling into it, to
London Bridge. The average width of the water way in
the Pools is from 400 to 500 feet. We have previously
VOL. II. x