This is another view of the same dock, seen from the western end, showing the South Quay, which comprises the Rum and Wood Departments. Upwards of 45,000 casks of rum have been warehoused here at one time. This is a view of the East India Import Dock. Many of you are probably aware that the Company are enlarging the basin of the dock, and constructing another entrance; there being at the present time but one, always a source of risk; as, should it happen, as at Hartlepool in May last, that a ship got wedged in the lock, thereby stopping the exit or entrance of vessels, the inconvenience to business would be indescribable. This is a view of that part of the London Dock known as the Crescent. This is an exceedingly interesting dock. The Wine Vaults alone may be described almost as one of the wonders of the modern world. One of them is nearly twelve acres in extent, and if you wish to fancy yourself in the Catacombs, without the trouble of a visit to Rome, you cannot do better than see the Wine Vaults at this or the St. Katharine’s Dock. Altogether there is storage accommodation for 80,000 pipes of wine and brandy. In fact as the West India Dock is the great depôt for rum and sugar, so this dock is the great depôt for wine and brandy. The Queen’s Pipe is also a most interesting feature of this establishment. Here all condemned goods are destroyed by fire, which at times receives some odd contributions. On one occasion 45,000 pairs of gloves were consigned to the flames, and on another, 900 Austrian mutton hams. Indeed comparatively few people who cursorily scan the frowning walls of the great dock establishments are aware of the varied information and instruction to be gathered within them.