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 "curiosities." "Beyond Knightsbridge, Hyde Park wall,—crowds of strawberry girls in the foot-path;—meet long coaches. N. B. That road a great thoroughfare;—Kensington George II. died here." I give my companion a sketch of his history: Holland-house not in the modern style of building;—dissertation upon architecture;—my companion observes I know every thing. Attending too earnestly to my subject, run against a carter—scoundrel hits me with his whip;—I turn about and swear at him. He comes back;—I ride on." Dipping into another page, the Baronet found "Brentford, said to be a royal city; entrance not remarkable for royal magnificence." "You observe," said the Doctor, looking with arch sarcasm, "my friend advises me, as a great antiquarian, to write the history of the monarchs of Old and New Brentford. Sion-house,