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that of Somersetshire, to afford an admirable field for a 
comparison of this kind. I could not well compare your 
churches with those of Sussex, which I visited last year, 
because utter diversity precludes all comparison. I hope 
to use to more advantage the results of my last archxo- 
logical ramble, because the buildings of the two distriets, 
among immense diversity of detail, present a considerable 
general resemblance. 
I took the opportunity of the Meeting of the Archxo- 
logical Institute at Cambridge, to see as much as time 
would allow me of the architecture of the eastern part of 
England. I went without stopping to Wisbeach, and 
thence to Lynn, in excursions from which places I 
examined several of the magnificent churches of the 
distriet lying between them, known as Marshland. I 
thenee proceeded, chiefly along the line of the railway, to 
Swaffham, East Dereham, Hingham, Wymondham, and 
Norwich. From Norwich I went straight to Cambridge, 
whence the excursions of the Institute enabled me to 
examine Bury St. Edmunds and Saffron Walden. It will 
thus be seen that though I have been to several distant 
points, I am very far from having traversed the whole 
extent of the old East-English kingdom ; and I regret 
that some of the finest objects, as Cromer and Cley and 
Snettisham and Worstead and Yarmouth, did not come 
within my reach. The last mentioned place was sacrificed 
to a longer examination of the innumerable buildings of 
Norwich, so happily rescued by a wise House of Commons 
from the destruction which then threatened them from 
another quarter. I have however been far enough to see 
many very splendid churches, and to observe many points 
of difference from what I have been used to in your 
county. Possibly the examination of a greater number 
