Chambers's Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, Fifth Series, No. 41, Vol. I, October 11, 1884Various
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Chambers's Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, Fifth Series, No. 41, Vol. I, October 11, 1884
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Of course, you can do as some of the Cheyenne fellows do, live
practically in town, and let the ranche run itself. They have an
attractive club and good society there, and lots of the men make
Cheyenne their headquarters. This _may_ be business, when you own, or
manage, large herds, and when you depend on your foreman to do the
work, while you pose gracefully in front as a cattle-king; but it is
anything but business where you have only a small band, on the success
of which depends your future. Sternly and ruefully, you must turn your
back on the delights of town, and manfully determine to stay up-country
and see it through.
REMAINS OF ANCIENT LONDON.
In constructing the last section of the Metropolitan (or ‘Underground’)
Railway—that expensive three-quarters of a mile, which it is said
will cost three millions—many curious discoveries have been made,
and many interesting relics brought to light. The section commences
at the present Mansion House Station, in Cannon Street, and proceeds
nearly east, at a considerable depth, terminating at the present Tower
Hill Station, and thus completing what is commonly called the ‘Inner
Circle.’ In its course, the railway tunnel traverses one of the most
ancient sites of the original British-Roman London; and the discoveries
alluded to chiefly refer to that period. The most important of these
has been a very perfectly built landing-stage or pier, not on the banks
of the Thames, but on the left bank of Wall Brook, near its confluence
with the Thames, the site being beneath the present Dowgate Hill,
which leads direct to the river. The stage appears to have been erected
with much care and skill, and is a very superior work. First, the spot
is filled in with oak timber-piling, carefully bound together; on this
is laid a concrete bed, which, in its turn, supports a Roman tesselated
pavement.
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