POPLAR, (Middlesex) so called from the trees with which it once abounded, lies on the Thames, to the E. of Limehouse, in the p. of Stepney, and has about 500 houses. The manor anciently bel. to the abbey of Grace upon Tower-Hill, London. Here are 2 almshs. besides a hos. that bel. to the East-India company, who maintain the minister of a chapel, built on their ground here by the inh. in 1654. Poplar-Marsh is that which the sailors formerly called the Isle of Dogs, because of the great noise made by the K's hounds that were kept there, while the court was at Greenwich over-against it. It is about 1 m. either way, but is rather an isthmus than an island; for though it is encompassed by the Thames on the E. S. and W. there is nothing that separates it on the N. from the land. It is reckoned the richest spot of ground in England, and the sheep and oxen fatted on it the largest; and the dealers in cattle about London fit them for the Mt. sooner here, than elsewhere. The pasture here is also reckoned a resrorative for all distempered cattle; but horses are not taken in to graze here, under 5 s. a week.