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Survey of London
… in position. Steaming was carried out in square wooden trunks, about 30ft long, fitted at one end with iron doors, … and on the opening of which planks are slid into the trunks, to be afterwards exposed to the action of steam'. 157 …
Old and New London
… was our natural query. Too dirty for that. Nor for old trunks? Much too greasy for that. What were they good for, …