ABSTRACT
This chapter describes the layout of the brick terraces of houses, which constituted the bulk of the rapidly expanding districts on the fringe of the capital’s historic core. It gives an account of the recently built Blackfriars Bridge, designed by Robert Mylne, son of an Edinburgh master mason, and opened in 1760. The new quarters of London consist of streets drawn in a direct line, and with great uniformity. The foundations of the piles are made by caissons ranged along the banks of the river, and which are afterwards placed upon the pilings destined to receive them. Before the caissons are laid, the piles are made regular, by cutting them at an equal height by means of a saw formed with great ingenuity, and with which they can work under water with equal speed and exactness.
