Sir Henry Maybury, considered the greatest expert on roads in the world, gave a few interesting side-lights on that yellow-back, thick, choking, aeriform known prosaically as " London fog":
" In the non-foggy month of June, 54 tons of dirt were deposited from the air on a square mile in the City of London.
" During the past three years there had been 27 days of ground fog; the number of buses unable to complete their scheduled journeys, 10,202; mileage lost, 434,457.
" In February, 1921, a dense fog, starting at 6 p. m., caused 1,436...
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