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Under the cliff, and not far from the lighthouse, Cynoglossum 

 officinale and AnayaUis tenella were detected. 



The soil of the narrow slip between the sea and the marshes 

 is a sandy clay, and, as usual when the cliff is either cretaceous 

 or argillaceous, the slope is landwards, and the sea is impinging 

 on the land. The cliff ends or is interrupted by the river and the 

 new town of Lowestoft, which is built on the beach ; the old 

 town is on the cliff. The botany of this part of the coast did not 

 turn out so productive as was expected. 



Reports reached our ears from more than one quarter that all 

 the exotic species seen at Wandsworth steamboat pier during the 

 last ten years were to be seen at Lowestoft. This may be quite 

 true, though we did not see one of them ; and we pored into 

 many odd uooks, waste places, and looked at several rubbish- 

 heaps, without having the good hap to see anything but the com- 

 mon shore, and harbour plants, and not many of them. 



Gorleston is a far more likely locality than Lowestoft, because 

 it is a place of much trade, and has intercourse with several parts 

 of tlie world ; but here at Lowestoft we saw nothing uncommon. 



After we had been to Lowestoft, a kind correspondent told us 

 that there was good botanizing inland, from this town especially, 

 on one of the "■ broads " which abound in this eastern nook of 

 Kngland. 



About five o'clock we turned our heads to the north, and 

 reached Yarmouth in a very small fraction of the time spent in 

 coming here. The rail is a speedier mode of transit than the 

 marrowbone stage, but it is not so suitable for botanical opera- 

 tions. 



On Tuesday, the 15th, St. Swithin's day, we travelled in the 

 same direction as on the previous journey, only through the 

 marshes, and not by the seashore nor on the cliff. Our course 

 was along the rigli', or Suffolk, side of the Yare, which, above 

 Yarmouth harbour, forms one of the broads so common in the 

 two eastern counties, and appears when it is high water rather 

 more like a lake than a river. 



This was by far the most important district of both the coun- 

 ties which we had the pleasure of searching during our late visit. 

 Much could not be done in a few days, but our experience con- 

 vinces us that it is a rich tract. St. Swithin's day, the loth of 

 July, also the 19th and 21 st of the same month, were spent in 



