P. 166, 1. 9. Spring-garden. Spring Garden, or Vauxhall, was a favorite place of public amusement in the eighteenth century. It lay on the sunny side of the Thames, in the region of Lambeth, and is said to have derived its name from a family named Vaux, who had an estate there in the times of Elizabeth. Addison's is one of the earliest references to this resort, which became more popular later on in the century. Vauxhall long played a large part in social life, as will be seen in the essays of Goldsmith, the novels of Fielding, Smollett, and Thackeray, the letters of Walpole, and the paintings of Hogarth. The gardens were not closed till 1859. P. 167, 1. 16. La Hogue. A cape of northwest France off which the French were defeated by the English and Dutch fleets in 1692. See Browning's poem "Hervé Riel." P. 167, 1. 23. London bridge. Built between 1176 and 1209; this was for many centuries the only bridge across the Thames. The old bridge was burned and the present structure erected in 1831. P. 167, 1. 31. on this side Temple-bar. That is, on the Westminster side of Temple Bar, a London gateway formerly dividing Fleet Street from the Strand. Cf. "Little Britain" in Irving's Sketch-Book. P. 168, 1. 2. The fifty new churches. It had long been felt that the growing suburbs of London were very poorly provided for in a religious way, and a resolution was passed by the House of Commons, in 1711, for the erection of fifty new churches. P. 168, 11. 29, 30. Mahometan paradise. The heaven described in the Koran was a garden abounding in everything to gratify the senses. P. 169, l. 15. Burton ale. Burton-on-Trent, a town in East Staffordshire and South Derbyshire, was already, in Addison's day, famous for its ale. 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