Volume 2

Fumifugium : now reissued as an Old Ashmolean reprint in the year of the refacing of the Old Ashmolean museum / by John Evelyn.

  • Evelyn, John, 1620-1706.
Date:
1930
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Fumifugium : now reissued as an Old Ashmolean reprint in the year of the refacing of the Old Ashmolean museum / by John Evelyn. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    thing Extrinfecal and Accidental onely, which naturally does not concern the Place at all; but which may very ea- fily be reformed, without any the lead inconvenience, as in due time we {hall come to demondrate. For fird, the City of London is built upon a fweet and mod agreeable Eminency of Ground, at the North-fide of a goodly and well-conditioned River, towards which it hath an Afpefl by a gentle and eafie declivity, apt to be improved to all that may render her Palaces, Buildings, and Avenues ufefull, gracefull, and mod magnificent: The Fumes which exhale from the Waters and lower Grounds lying Southward, by which means they are perpetually attrafled, carried off or diffipated by the Sun, as foon as they are born, and afcend. Adde to this, that the Soil is univerfally Gravell, not onely where the City itfelfis placed, but for feverall Miles about the Countreys which environ it: That it is plenti¬ fully and richly irrigated, and vifited with Waters which Chridalize her Fountains in every Street, and may be eondu&ed to them in fuch farther plenty, as Rome herfelf might not more abound in this liquid ornament, for the pleafure and divertifement, as well as for the ufe and re- frefhment of her Inhabitants. I forbear to enlarge upon the red of the conveniencies which this Augud and Opu¬ lent City enjoies both by Sea and Land, to accumulate her .'Encomiums, and render her the mod confiderable that the Earth has danding upon her ample bofome; becaufe, it belongs to the Orator and the Poet, and is none of my In- ditution: But I will infer, that if this goodly City judly D chal-