Geochemical Investigation of Source Water to Cave Springs, Great Basin National Park, White Pine County, Nevada

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1834 edition. Excerpt: ...bably be adopted that would render it unnecessary to touch those properties which, by reason of their value, may be supposed to be the most difficult to deal with: the brewery of Messrs. Meux and Co. would of course remain: and the large timber yard, with one or two other considerable establishments in this vicinage, need not be disturbed. Let us next consider how to appropriate the cleared ground. A glance at the plan of this quarter of London will satify us that this point is a focus towards which there is a general tendency in the direction of the neighbouring streets to converge; and its central position will be still more apparent when the improvements hereafter to be described are taken into the account. A general market therefore might be most fitly placed here, receiving readily the produce of the country which arrives from the north and west, and dispersing it at once throughout a district as closely peopled as any part of the metropolis. The same site also presents obvious advantages for the formation of a military depot. Here also men of business would be anxious to fix their offices and even their residences, from the perfectly central position of this spot, lying, as it would, in the direct line of commerce between the eastern and western extremities of the town. There would in short be no difficulty in the appropriation of the vacant ground; let it but be once cleared, and new and handsome buildings would not be slow to spring up on every side; for no builder would be willing to waste his capital on the suburbs, when an opportunity offered of more beneficially employing it in the heart of the town. It may possibly happen that some persons will be found to exclaim against this crusade upon the Holy Land, and tell...