How does the author describe London in the year, 1599?

In Elizabethan London, the City of London, located on the north bank of the Thames River is the heart of the city. Elizabethan London is dirty and smelly. There is trash and bodily waste in the streets and it has a terrible odor. Many people are sick because of the lack of sanitation. The bubonic plague is going around, and most people who contract it during the sixteenth century do not survive. The people in Elizabethan English speak a language that sounds like a combination of Southern American and modern day English. Nat notes that his accent from North Carolina sounds similar to Elizabethan English.