CHAPTER X.

BATTERSEA TO LONDON BRIDGE.--_By EDMUND OLLIER._

The Scene Changes--A City River--Battersea--Chelsea--The Old Church--Sir T. More and Sir Hans Sloane--Cheyne Walk--Don Saltero's Coffee-house and Thomas Carlyle--The Botanical Gardens--Chelsea Hospital--The Pensioners--Battersea Park--The Suspension Bridge--Vauxhall--Lambeth--The Church and Palace--Westminster Palace and the Abbey--Its Foundation and History--Westminster Hall--Westminster Bridge--The Victoria Embankment--York Gate--Waterloo Bridge and Somerset House--The Temple--Blackfriars Bridge--St. Paul's--Southwark Bridge--The Old Theatres--Cannon Street Bridge--London Bridge and its Traffic 258