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would not have traveled down into this country to the village of Westminster to get crowned. If you skip down three hundred fifty years further you will find a London of some little consequence, but I believe that that is as much as you can say for it. Still, I am interested in that London, for it saw the first of two processions which will live longer than any others, in English history. I think the date of one is 1415, the other is that of 1897. The compactly built part of the London of 1415 was a narrow strip not a mile long, which stretched east and west through the middle of what is now called ���the city.��� The houses were densest in the region of Cheapside. South of the strip were scattering residences which stood on turfy lawns which sloped to the river. North of the strip fields and country houses extended to the walls. Let us represent that London by three checkerboard squares placed in a row, then open out the San Francisco ���Examiner��� like a book and the space which it covers will properly represent the London of to-day by comparison. It is the difference between your hand and a blanket. It is possible that ancient London had 100,000 inhabitants, and that 100,000 outsiders came to town to see the procession. The present London has five or six million inhabitants and it has been calculated that the population has jumped to 10,000,000 to-day. The pageant of 1415 was to HYLAND 6