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Again, passing over Victoria Park that pleasant oasis in a desert of houses and bending round towards the north, we may ask where are the fields; and may wait until 'echo answers, Where. Hackney and Homerton, Clapton and Dalston, Shacklewell and Newington, not only have the houses ranged themselves closely along the main roads to these villages, but have filled up nearly all the vacant ground between those roads.
The noises of children, playing their own fancies as I now hearken to them by fits, sporting on the green before my window, while I am engaged in these grave speculations at my neat suburban retreat at Shacklewell by distance made more sweet inexpressibly take from the labour of my task. It is like writing to music. They seem to modulate my periods.
Interior of right valve of a small specimen, from Shacklewell, London. d. LIVING: Tellina fluminalis, O.F. Muller : 1774. Venus fluminalis Euphratis, Chemnitz : 1782. Cyclas Euphratica, Lam. : 1806. Cyrena cor, Lam. Cyrena Cashmiriensis, Desh. : Corbicuia fluminalis, Muhlfeldt. : 1811. FOSSIL: Cyrena trigonula, S. Woodward : 1834. Cyrena Gemmellarii, Philippi : 1836.
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