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favourite house or shop by splendid manslons on
St. Michael's hill, where it is out of his power to
converse with others of his own way of thinking ;
and the speculators of Bristol soon felt that all
their squares, crescents, and magnificence, would
be destitute of residents, though certainly highly
desirable. Those mistaken men appear to have
followed the pernicious example of London build-
ers, who often ruin themselves, but somettmes
make great fortunes, by erecting rows of fine
houses in the fields, forgetting that London pof-
sesses a magnetic power of attraction of which
Bristol is entirely destitute. The former, being
the seat of government, and the seat of a thousand
other inducements to residence, has a constant
supply of fresh inhabitants, who speedily occupy
new houses ; but the reverse has been found to be
the case in a very great meafure in Bristol.
I do not recollect: a more melancholy spectacle,
independent of human sufFerings, than a walk on
a dull day through the silent and falling houses in
the Western environs of this city; almost all of
which are so nearly flnished as to represent the
deserted streets occasioned by a siege, or the
ravages of a plague. Nor can one fail of reflect-
ing on the ruin many families must have suf-
fered, to occasion such a picture of deiblation.
Even
favourite house or shop by splendid manslons on
St. Michael's hill, where it is out of his power to
converse with others of his own way of thinking ;
and the speculators of Bristol soon felt that all
their squares, crescents, and magnificence, would
be destitute of residents, though certainly highly
desirable. Those mistaken men appear to have
followed the pernicious example of London build-
ers, who often ruin themselves, but somettmes
make great fortunes, by erecting rows of fine
houses in the fields, forgetting that London pof-
sesses a magnetic power of attraction of which
Bristol is entirely destitute. The former, being
the seat of government, and the seat of a thousand
other inducements to residence, has a constant
supply of fresh inhabitants, who speedily occupy
new houses ; but the reverse has been found to be
the case in a very great meafure in Bristol.
I do not recollect: a more melancholy spectacle,
independent of human sufFerings, than a walk on
a dull day through the silent and falling houses in
the Western environs of this city; almost all of
which are so nearly flnished as to represent the
deserted streets occasioned by a siege, or the
ravages of a plague. Nor can one fail of reflect-
ing on the ruin many families must have suf-
fered, to occasion such a picture of deiblation.
Even