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BOOK THE THIRD.
THE BEGINNING OF THE FISSURE.
CHAPTER I.
THE TADCASTER INN.
At that period London had but one bridge--London Bridge, with houses
built upon it. This bridge united London to Southwark, a suburb which
was paved with flint pebbles taken from the Thames, divided into small
streets and alleys, like the City, with a great number of buildings,
houses, dwellings, and wooden huts jammed together, a pell-mell mixture
of combustible matter, amidst which fire might take its pleasure, as
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666 had proved. Southwark was then pronounced Soudric, it is now
pronounced Sousouorc, or near it; indeed, an excellent way of
pronouncing English names is not to pronounce them. Thus, for
Southampton, say Stpntn.
It was the time when "Chatham" was pronounced je t'aime.
The Southwark of those days resembles the Southwark of to-day about as
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