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falls overboard and the losses of men, which have caused the model to
fall into disuse. The Vograat went to Holland direct, and did not even
call at Gravesend.
An old ridge of stones, rock as much as masonry, ran along the bottom of
the Effroc Stone, and being passable at all tides, was used as a passage
on board the ships moored to the wall. This wall was, at intervals,
furnished with steps. It marked the southern point of Southwark. An
embankment at the top allowed the passers-by to rest their elbows on the
Effroc Stone, as on the parapet of a quay. Thence they could look down
on the Thames; on the other side of the water London dwindled away into
fields.
Up the river from the Effroc Stone, at the bend of the Thames which is
nearly opposite St. James's Palace, behind Lambeth House, not far from
the walk then called Foxhall (Vauxhall, probably), there was, between a
pottery in which they made porcelain, and a glass-blower's, where they
made ornamental bottles, one of those large unenclosed spaces covered
with grass, called formerly in France cultures and mails, and in
England bowling-greens. Of bowling-green, a green on which to roll a
ball, the French have made boulingrin. Folks have this green inside
their houses nowadays, only it is put on the table, is a cloth instead
of turf, and is called billiards.
It is difficult to see why, having boulevard (boule-vert), which is the
same word as bowling-green, the French should have adopted boulingrin.
It is surprising that a person so grave as the Dictionary should indulge
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