58 ESSAYS AND OBSERVATIONS 



heavens, and never appears again till it 

 comes to the level of the marfhes, or fen- 

 country, where the foil may be faid to 

 have no bottom, at lead it is deeper 

 than can be reached by any method of 

 culture. 



The high grounds are for the moft 

 part common, or employed in pafture 

 for iheep. The low or fen countries have 

 now and then alfo very extenfive com- 

 mons ; but the reft of the country is well 

 divided and inclofed, the foil rich, and 

 producing, when in tillage, weighty 

 crops of hemp, flax, turnip, barley, 

 grafs feeds, wheat, oats, and, when 

 laid down, the beft pafture for cattle of 

 all kinds. 



What may properly be called the 

 high grounds of Norfolk, are generally 

 covered with a very thm light foil ; the 

 low lands are of the fame quality, but 

 the foil deep, occafioned by waftiing or j 

 blowing from the higher parts. 



The brooks and rivers run in exten- 

 five marfties, made by the fprings break- 

 ing 



