Quotation from: Lost Continent

Written by: Edgar Rice Burroughs

And so I turned and passed beneath the great arch into the
city of London.

5

As we entered deeper into what had once been the city, the
evidences of man's past occupancy became more frequent. For
a mile from the arch there was only a riot of weeds and
undergrowth and trees covering small mounds and little
hillocks that, I was sure, were formed of the ruins of
stately buildings of the dead past.