General Plan of London, Map of Environs, Plans of Public Buildings, Museums and Gardens, Railway Stations, Plan of London, engraved expressly for this work from the most recent Map of the Environs, extending from Windsor to Greenwich, etc. Ground Plan of the South Kensington Museum Ground Plan of the Zoological Gardens THE ENVIRONS. Map of the Environs of London-Windsor, Gravesend, Crystal LOND ONDON, the capital of the British Empire, lies upon both banks of the river Thames, some fifty miles from its mouth. Its latitude may be roughly taken at 51° 31' N. It extends into four counties, but the largest portion is in Middlesex. It returns sixteen members to the Commons' House of Parliament, four elected by the City of London proper, two by the City of Westminster, and two each by the boroughs of Marylebone, Finsbury, Tower Hamlets, Southwark, and Lambeth, the two last of which are on the south side of the river. POPULATION.-According to the census returns of 1861, the population of the metropolis amounted to 2,803,921 persons, living in 360,237 houses, spread over 78,029 acres of ground, or about 121 square miles. |