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"The lofty walls, which constitute it in the language of the Custom-house a place of special security, enclose an area of 23 acres...cargoes are raised into the warehouses out of the hold of a ship, without the goods being deposited on the quay. The cargoes can be raised out of the ship's hold into the warehouses of St Katherine's in one-fifth of the usual time."
Mayhem, London Labour and the London Poor (O'Day and Englander edition 2008:436, Wordsworth Edition Ltd) '