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Excerpt from Shades and Echoes of Old London
Many, many changes have occurred in our mother city. Over and over again it has been built and rebuilt.
The very soil we walk upon is an accumulation of remains, in many parts some twenty feet above the pavement trodden by the Roman masters of that colony which gave it its time-honoured name. But the ages, as they have rolled over London, have left behind them memories not subject to the laws of change. The fire of 1666 destroyed many a goodly church, and hall, and mansion; but not one Of the names rendered famous by noble achievements, virtuous deeds, or historical associations, could it consume or blacken. Streets alter, public edifices disappear, houses are pulled down and new ones take their place; but the monuments which consist of the recorded actions, and deeds, and thoughts of the great and good, defy the accidents of time, and are as imperishable as the heavens. Fiction tells us Of a city in an African desert where the inhabitants were turned to stone, and there they stood the memorials of their once living selves. And in Athens there was a second population besides the evanescent one that crowded her streets and climbed her Acropolis; even the statues which stood in marble beauty by the steps of the temples and the thresholds of the houses. London has more enduring memorials of some who once lived12 shades and iec'i-[oes OF old london.
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