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buildings, now still
marked by a Ro¬
man bath. ‘This
knoll would be
approached by a
narrow path from
Holborn, now
called Shoe, pro¬
perly Show- well,
Lane. Westward
the Strand, like
Fleet Street, would
be under water and
there would be no
access to the city
where Ludgate
afterwards stood.
When we have
entered at Newgate
we find a. wide
open space, then or
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south-east, passing
the east end of St. Paul’s, and just touching the
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