small-tract

Updated: May 6, 2025

Scotland-yard is a small—a very small-tract of land, bounded on one side by the river Thames, on the other by the gardens of Northumberland House: abutting at one end on the bottom of Northumberland-street, at the other on the back of Whitehall-place.

Charles Dickens - Sketches by Boz, illustrative of everyday life and every-day people