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And if you had been a visitor arriving in Victorian London for the first time… The city might have overwhelmed every one of your senses at once. The streets thundered with carriage wheels over stone. Vendors shouted from crowded markets. Factory whistles screamed in the distance. Smoke poured endlessly from chimneys overhead. And everywhere… People. Thousands upon thousands of people pressing through narrow streets— Each one adding to the heat… The noise… And the smell. In summer, th