And underneath these wandered the countless flocks and herds of the British Food Trust, his property, with their lonely guards and keepers.
Not a familiar outline anywhere broke the cluster of gigantic shapes below.

St.Paul's he knew survived, and many of the old buildings in Westminster, embedded out of sight, arched over and covered in among the giant growths of this great age.

The Thames, too, made no fall and gleam of silver to break the wilderness of the city; the thirsty water mains drank up every drop of its waters before they reached the walls.

Its bed and estuary, scoured and sunken, was now a canal of sea water, and a race of grimy bargemen brought the heavy materials of trade from the Pool thereby beneath the very feet of the workers.

Faint and dim in the eastward between earth and sky hung the clustering masts of the colossal shipping in the Pool.