To create variety in the streets, he also
proposed, that there should be breaks and
enlargements, by spacious openings at
proper distances, surrounded with piazzas,
and uniformly built with beautiful fronts;
and that some of these openings should be
square, some circular, and others oval.
He would have none of the principal
streets less than an hundred feet in breadth,
nor any of the narrowest less than thirty.
He would have three or four large streets
between the Thames and London Wall,
reckoning that of Cheapside for the chief,
which might extend from Temple Bar to
the upper part of Tower hill, or to Crutch-
ed Friars, bearing the cathedral of St.
Paul's upon a noble eminence.

Among these he would have the paro-
chial churches, which he thought might
be reduced to half the number, as some
of the parishes were then no less than two
hundred times larger than others: and
these he would have so interspersed as to
adorn the profile of the city at all its ave-
nues.  Most of them he would have in
the center of spacious areas, adorned with
piazzas, &c. so as to be seen from several
streets, and others at the abutments and
extremities of them.

About the church piazzas, the station-
ers and booksellers were to have their

The College of Physicians he would
have in one of the best parts of the town,
incircled with a handsome piazza, for the
dwellings of those learned persons, with
the surgeons, apothecaries, and druggists
in the streets about them; for he would
have all of a mystery in the same quarters;
those of the better sort of the shopkeepers
in the sweetest and most eminent streets
and piazzas; and the artificers in the more
ordinary houses, in the intermediate and
narrow passages; the taverns and victual-
ling houses were to be placed amongst
them, and be built accordingly; but so
as to preserve the most perfect unifor-
mity.

Between the piazzas, market places,
and churches, might be placed the halls