THE SIZE OF LONDON.

Bruce Herald, Volume XXI, Issue 2178, 27 June 1890, Page 5

THE SIZE OF LONDON.

You have probably ali heard op read of those huge cities of the ancient world, Babylon and Rome, and have been very rruch impressed with descriptions of their size. Well, although we have no means of telling exactly how many people lived in them, it is safe to say that the inhabitants of London to-day are twice as numerous as were those of both these great places put together. Those of you wbo know Liverpool, Manchester, Glasgow, Birmingham, or any other of our large cities, will be surprised to hear jthat in London there are more than as many bouses as there are people in any of them. London contains as many folk as the whole of Ireland, and many more than are to be fouud in Scotland. If all who can call themselves " Londoners" were to walk by you at the rate of 100 a minute, never stopping day or night. : it would be five weeks before they had ' passed. Supposing that you wished to walk through all the streets and lanes and alleys of the great metropolis, and were able to arrange your trip so cleverly that you never traversed the same one twice, you would have to walk 1 0 miles every day for nine years beforef, your journey was at an end. In London thera a'-e moro Bom«\n Catholics than are to be found iv

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