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2. nor Battersea
Common Field
Of the other proposed spot that has been suggested mentioned your
Memorialist is free to confess that rev in his view
of it is it stands as free as the spot existing already allotted from every all objection, but one:
but that one will he trusts in your Lordship's
judgment, and must at any rate in his own decision be absolutely
decisive. conclusive To this spot he knows of no
unsurmountable determinate limits bit those of the Thames
on the North, on the West, a few the Houses and other erections in the
vicinity of and lying of Battersea Bridge (to
the East of it) the road called the Lower Road from Vauxhall to Clapham
Battersea and Wandsworth on the South and the great Flour Tide
which employed for grinding flower not far from
Vauxhall, in the East. There would be ample space
for insulation; and at the present for as yet it is as clear from
Houses as the centre of New Holland or the Compania
of Rome. It is disposed of in Timber Docks, marshes
Garden Grounds and Corn fields. By the ample
command it affords might afford of the Thames, it
would in a commercial view be of much more greater
convenience than the present spot to the individual
interest of your Memorialist. But y the
views plans and determinations of your Memorialist,
though they can not but be regulated be wholly neglectful of are not governed
are neither exclusively nor principally governed by commercial views. The spot
is full of dangers, in the whole extent of it full of big with danger
to
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