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54 THE GROWTH OF THE CITY us now would be the frowning walls of London, and the Westgate immediately above the Fleet, while the road dipped into the valley below. - There must have been a bridge here over the Holborn or Fleet at a very early time, the road zigzagging up to the gate, a little to the northward of what we call Newgate. The Fleet on the right is a wide tidal marsh, and before we descend to it we may possibly perceive the burnt fragments of a farmhouse, near to where —— is now St. Andrew's, Church. Before entering the city we should observe that the line of the wall extended along the precipitous eastern bank of the Fleet, downto the Thames. Very few, if any, houses or churches would rise above the level of the ramparts, but if any did so, it would be St. Paul’s, and a little farther on perhaps St. Martin’s le Grand. Standing outside the gate and turning southward we should see the wide waters of the Fleet spreading themselves over what is now the city end of Fleet Street, and so westward to a knoll of higher ground, where were some remains of or ae eg öt ek a
