Tbe principal advantages of tbe design proposed are: It is recorded that when James 1. tbreatened to punisb First. Lowness of level and. consequently, easy gradients the citizens of London by the removal of bimself and bis for the land traffic. court to some other city, the Lord Mayor calmly informed Second. ElXinomy of construction in tbe approaches on the King of the hope of the citizens tbat His Maje�ty would botb banks of the river, the lowness of tbe level allowing of leave tbem tbe

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... So long as tbe river remained, the direct access, and necessitating very sligbt alterations of tbe people of London believed that they migh t endure tbe loss adjoining streets and properties. of even the Solomon of tbe West. Since tbat time mucb Tbird. Occupfttion of leis river space tban a swing bas been done by means of milways and improved roads bridge, wbicb, wben swung open, requires a clear space to fa cilitat e the intercourse of nations and to promote com-equal to the half span of tbe bridge. merce; but the Thames is still what it was in tbe days of Fourth. Less interference with the tide-way or navigation King James, the link by wbich London is united with the of tbe river, tbe�'e being only two towers or piers, instead of rest of the world. If, as Sir J obn Herschel says, "London is three or four, as in tbe swing bridge scbemes.