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Letter XV. Prospect of saving from this Plan.
favourite, and observe what load of expence, some part then necessary,
some perhaps not altogether so, it was to have thrown upon the nation;
and, at the same time, what will be still more comfortable to you, how
great a proportion of that expence would be struck off, by the new and of
course still greater favourite, which I have ventured to introduce to you.
In the first place, there was to have been a vast extent of
ground: for it was to have had rope-walks, and timber-yards, and it
is well it was not to have had Dockyards. then, for the sake of
healthiness, that ground was to have had a command of running
water: then again, for the convenience of dignified Inspectors, that ground
and that water were to have been in the vicinity of the metropolis. It
was to have been on the banks of the Thames, somewhere I think, about
Wandsworth and Battersea: and a site, fit for I know not how many
of the most luxurious villas, that fancy could conceive or Christi
describe, was to be buried under it. Seven and twenty thousand
pound, I think, was the price talked of, and, for ought I know, paid,
for the bare ground, before so much as a spade was put in it. As to
my Contractor, eighteen or twenty acres, of the most unprofitable
land your County or any adjacent one other contains, Hounslow Heath,
any wash land
Epping Tract, or any other Heath or Tract, which the Crown
has already in its possession, would answer every plea he could put
in, and out of that he would crib gardens for his own accommodation, and
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