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itself into the Thames a little to the east of Blackfriars Bridge. To
our left, looking northward, we see the great but ugly viaduct which
conveys the roadway of Holborn to Newgate, and may recall the fact
that John Bunyan died in a house which stood just where the eastern
piers of the Bridge stand now. The river was first covered over,
between Holborn Bridge and Fleet Bridge, in 1737, when the Stocks