Thursday, March 14, 2002
Sinking
A chart released by NPA Satellite Mapping & Exploration shows that portions of London are sinking, ever so slightly, in an area around the Jubilee Line Extension. [via Plep]
See also: Johnson's London
Scarce can our Fields, such Crowds at Tyburn die,
With Hemp the Gallows and the Fleet supply.
Propose your Schemes, ye Senatorian Band,
Whose Ways and Means support the sinking Land;
Lest Ropes be wanting in the tempting Spring,
To rig another Convoy for the K--g.
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