Excerpt from The Ambulator, Or, the Stranger's Companion in a Tour Round London: Within the Circuit of Twenty-Five Miles; Describing Whatever Is Remarkable, Either for Grandeur, Elegancy, Use, or Curiosity; And Comprehending Catalogues of the Pictures by Eminent Artists, to Which Is Prefixed, a Concise Description of London, Southwark The favourable reception which the first edition of the following work has met with, having made a republication of it necessary; the Editor has very attentively revised it, in order to make it more worthy of the public attention. Complete accuracy is more difficult of attainment in works of this kind than any other. The great variety of materials, the continual flux of property, the changes arising from natural events, prevailing fashion, and human caprice, will ever prevent a collection of this nature from being free from defects: even while the pen of the writer is eager in description, - fire may have totally destroyed, or fancy be busily engaged in altering, the object of it. Besides, he who possessed it to-day, may not possess it to-morrow; and, in the environs of the capital, these successions, from various causes, are oftentimes so transient, that the proprietor may be said to change with the season. But where accuracy cannot be attained, it must not be expected; and considerable utility may be preserved, though description may be sometimes unavoidably erroneous. However, in this edition great care has been taken to correct the errors of the former, to discover whatever change or alteration has lately taken place, and to give the whole, as far as possible, the corrections of the time when it was committed to the press. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.