“The mighty river flowing dark and deep,
With ebb and flood from the remote sea-tides,
Vague-sounding through the City’s sleepless sleep,
Is named the River of the Suicides.”

—  James Thomson (B.V.)

Part XIX
The City of Dreadful Night (1870–74)

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