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A Morning's Walk from London to Kew

Chapter 7: Transcriber’s Note
By Sir R. Phillips
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About This Book

A pedestrian narrator records observations made while traveling from central London to the suburbs, mixing landscape description—parks, riverside villas, gardens, and urban smoke—with close attention to local industry, manufactories, and roadside characters. Interwoven are moral and political reflections on poverty, labour, public expenditure, the effects of machinery, roads and fire prevention, and suggestions for civic improvement and communications. Portraits of parish institutions, workhouses, and popular customs prompt broader commentary on social welfare, commerce, superstition, and the duties of statesmen, offering practical proposals and philosophical asides grounded in everyday observation.

ERRATA.

At page 65, five lines from bottom, insert three commas after “beastly, vicious, and diseased,”—and at page 168, line 8, for found read formed.

Transcriber’s Note

  • Spellings left as found except as noted below:
    • the Apennines (was ‘Appenines’); to alarm them by
    • the state of knowledge, in an era (was ‘æra’) when
    • and Ruins of old buildings, must frequently (was ‘frequenty’)
    • Hartley, esq. a son of the illustrious (was ‘illustrions’) writer
    • progressively (was ‘progresssively’) augmented; and then acting
    • different (was ‘differents’) parts of the kingdom, taken at
    • A. necessarily and simultaneously (was ‘stimultaneously’) negative
    • Chelsea buns (was ‘bunns’) — two times
    • Nell Gwyn (was ‘Gwin’)
  • Items noted in the Errata section have been repaired.
  • Index items are in order as printed.