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270 THE CITY AS IT IS was completed in 1831. The exK penses were about a million and a acs half, but two-thirds of that sum. > were spent on the approaches. A fine new street, named in honour of King William IV, who opened the new bridge among the early acts of his short reign, was constructed to reach to the junction of Gracechurch Street and Cannon Street ; and the old route by Fish Street Hill and past the Monument was abandoned. It may be worth OFFICES OF PENINSULAR AND ORIENTAL STEAM NAVIGATION CO, LEADENHALL STREET while to mention here that about 120,000 vehicles cross the bridge in a week ; but it is hoped that the new Tower Bridge, now in process of construction, may have a powerful § I effect in diminishing the traffic. The Monument Station of the underground railway is not far from * a mahi a ft | ag Poa, e 7? Wrens handsome pillar, and, indeed, the railway itself is too near it, and, no doubt, causes the vibration which — et . a Wik JERUSALEM CHAMBERS, CORNHILL a year or two ago brought down ai
