[19] This, I fear, is a poetic fiction, but nearer the truth than usual—the wire suspension bridge is at Hammersmith.
[20] Vide Capt. Tayler's Prospectus for floating breakwaters—an invention which really promises to save our ships and purses too.
[21] Taste and try the "granulated potato," which in its way, promises much! I have seen a letter from the Niger Expedition wherein it is praised up to the African skies.
[22] This may be seen in action on the Surry side of the river opposite Hungerford Market—that is, when you can get there without being drowned in the floods.
[23] This will was proved in the archdeaconry of Huntingdon, Sept. 18, 1724.
[24] It is a strange anomaly in the present law, that, where two or more insane persons are confined, a license is required for the asylum; but if only one person is so confined, the keeper does not need a license. This might be remedied without touching private houses.
[25] Suggested by the refusal of the Poor-law Commissioners to allow any charitable person to send in supplies of roast-beef and plum-pudding upon Christmas day to the inmates of the Union workhouses.
Transcriber notes:
P.vi. '372' changed to '272' which is the correct page number.