1863.] NORFOLK BOTANY. 427 



plants, and at half-past seven the railway from Furnes to Bruges 

 conveyed some of us towards Ghent, Brussels, and different parts 

 of the country. 



1 feel assured that every one carried away with him agreeable 

 souvenirs of this exciting and successful scientific expedition. 

 As for me and my comrades, we have reasons to think our- 

 selves particularly favoured by the hearty welcome that we re- 

 ceived from the President and all the members of the Society, 

 and we desire their acceptance, through this channel, of the 

 lively expressions of our deepest gratitude. H. H. C. 



Gendbrugge lez Gand, August, 1862. 



•NORFOLK BOTANY. 



Norivich, St. Faith's, Mousehold Heath. 



(See page 402, vol. vi.) 



On Thursday, July 17th, our small party left Yarmouth by 

 the half-past nine o'clock train, for Norwich, whither we arrived 

 in about three-quarters of an hour. 



Our first object was the cathedral, which we reached when 

 divine service had just ended. This sacred edifice, as learned 

 topographers would say, is a noble and august specimen of eccle- 

 siastical architecture ; and many other similar epithets might be 

 added without danger of exhausting the subject. 



No doubt this is all strictly true ; it is a venerable pile. It is 

 no servile copy of any similar structure. This would have been 

 impossible, for most of the cathedrals in England were begun 

 about the same time, or in the same century, though finished at 

 different periods. Some of them are not yet finished ! 



The two principal edifices in Norwich are the cathedral and 

 the castle ; the situation of the former is not like a city set on a 

 hill, but humble or lowly, like the genuine followers of the great 

 Founder of our holy religion. The latter, the castle, has a pro- 

 minent position commanding the entire city. The mother-church, 

 with its lofty spire pointing heavenwards, reminds the pious of 

 their future home ; the castle frowns terribly on all transgressors 

 of law, — made for the peace and welfare of society. 



