The Spectator, No. 454 (11 August 1712) [ Places / Transport ]
… the Noon of the Day. When we first put off from Shore, we soon fell in with a Fleet of Gardeners bound for the several Market-Ports of London ; and it was the most pleasing Scene imaginable to see the Chearfulness with which those … Covent-Garden , who frequently converse with Morning Rakes, very unlike the seemly Sobriety of those bound for Stocks Market . Nothing remarkable happened in our Voyage; but I landed with Ten Sail of Apricock Boats at Strand-Bridge , … at the Dark-House , to go to Bed before the Day was too far spent, Chimney-Sweepers pass'd by us as we made up to the Market, and some Raillery happened between one of the Fruit Wenches and those black Men, about the Devil and Eve , with …
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