This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1855 edition. Excerpt: ... of the Red Sea before the chariot of Pharaoh, separate only a3 some huge wagon or loaded cart conies heavily down the Lane--heavily and slowly--like some Juggernaut-car, threatening destruction to all who would impede its progress. Juggernaut has scarcely passed before the waves roll in again, and the ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1855 edition. Excerpt: ... of the Red Sea before the chariot of Pharaoh, separate only a3 some huge wagon or loaded cart conies heavily down the Lane--heavily and slowly--like some Juggernaut-car, threatening destruction to all who would impede its progress. Juggernaut has scarcely passed before the waves roll in again, and the tumult and tempest of voices recommence with a vigour and perseverance that throw Babel at once into the shade, and set even deafness at defiance. Petticoat-lane is long, narrow, and filthy, --a lane with many turnings. Let us beg our readers to glance down Hebrew-place, and retreat immediately--tbe look being enough; into Tripe-yard, and many others of equally euphonius title, --the same mouldy, musty smell is about them all; the odour of the old clothesman's bag seems to pervade the place. Petticoat-lane has no duplicate in London, though it has numerous parallels abroad. In filthiness it is surpassed by the Ghetto (the Jewish quarter in Rome), and by many of those tortuous thoroughfares in which daring travellers are lost, when wandering about the venerable and half Jewish cities of Hamburgh and Frankfort. The first thing that strikes you, when you have recovered your senses sufficiently to think of anything but the confusion that reigns around, is the appearance of the shops; the next, the dingy, second-hand look which everything wears, and the strange and all-powerful smell of old clothes and ancient shoeleather before alluded to, which impregnates the atmosphere, and gives a kind of character to the place. Here are brokers of all kinds--dealers in everything! hat-shops, bootshops, fried-fish-shops, butcher's-shops, public-houses--with Hebrew Bonifaces, uncleanly to look upon, lazily lounging at their doors--coffee-shops in plenty, and.
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