MAGNITUDE OF LONDON.
The « Nation ' says of London : The houses number more than 350,000, and its streets, if placed in line, would extend from Liverpool to New York, and are lighted at night by 360,000 gas lamps, consuming in every twenty-four hours about 13,000,000 cubic feet of gas. Of the water supply 44,383,328 gallons is used per day. The travelling public sustain 5,000 cabs and 1,500 omnibuses, besides all the other sorts of vehicles which human need can require or Ltuman wit invent. Its hungry pop'iltion devour in coarse of every year 1 , ! JOO,OOO quarters of wheat, 240,000 bullocks, 1,700,000 sheep, 28,000 calves, 35,000 pigs, 10,000,000 head of game, 3,000,000 salmon, and inumerabla fish of other sorts; and consume 43,300,000 gallons of beer, 2,000,000 of spirits, and 65,000 pipes of wine. As a consequence, 2,400 doctors find constant employment. London, finally, supports 852 "churches, which are presided over by 930 divines, of greater or less note.
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Southland Times, Issue 1063, 4 December 1868, Page 2
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156MAGNITUDE OF LONDON. Southland Times, Issue 1063, 4 December 1868, Page 2
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