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 Four years were now elapsed since George had been able to attend his buildings at this noble city with that care and over-sight which he desired. His residence there was but by snatches; he now and then caught a month flying, but the city was much enlarged in his absence. He had entrusted the management of the buildings to Gilbert; but every one who built houses, were left at liberty in every point but the front; the side of every street formed a regular one, and fancy itself could not form an idea of any thing more truly magnificent than all the streets of Stanley: they exhibited all that was great and elegant, with the utmost variety, that genius could invent; and as this superb city was evidently become the metropolis of the three, or rather four king-