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| | CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: London |
 | | London, the capital of England and chief city of the British Empire, is situated about fifty miles from the mouth of the Thames, Lat. |
| | London at this time consisted of a collection of low wooden houses thatched with reeds or straw, thus affording combustible material for the numerous and destructive fires which frequently broke out, as in 1087 when the greater part of the city, including St. Paul's, was burnt. |
| | London under the Hanoverian kings lost the beauty it formerly had and became a vast collection of houses, plain but comfortable, a condition from which it is only now successfully emerging. |
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