in Nottingham, where there are several thousand machines for the
manufacture of these things.

From Kidderminster, in Worcester, we have very fine carpets; from
Gloucester, we have cheese and pins; Northampton is celebrated for
leather; Shrewsbury, for flannel. The great mines are in Cumberland,
Cornwall, Northumberland, Durham, and Derbyshire. However, if I were
to tell you of all the places in England, that are famed for
different manufactures, I am afraid I should both exceed our space,
and wear out your patience, which I should be sorry to do. So I will
now tell you something about London.

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London, which you know is the capital of our own dear native land, is
the greatest commercial city in the world; it has been reckoned that
the value of the property shipped and unshipped on the river Thames,
every year, is more than one hundred million pounds. An enormous
quantity of property is laid in the London Docks, at Wapping; indeed,
the warehouse for tobacco alone covers a space of nearly five acres,
while the vaults underneath the ground are more than eighteen acres in
extent.

More coaches, omnibusses, waggons, vans, and other conveyances, crowd
the streets of London than any other city in the world. You will,
perhaps, be a little surprised when I tell you that in one principal
street, seven thousand vehicles pass to and fro every day. Almost
every kind of manufacture is carried on in London; silk goods,
jewellery, clocks, watches, ear-rings, hats, furniture, instruments of
every kind, porter and ale, with many more that I cannot now remember.