433 NORFOLK BOTANY. [Febi'uary, 



Faith's bogs lie in this direction, and not near St. Faith's, 

 Horsam ; but this is purely a surmise. Some amialile Norfolk 

 reader of this may possibly be induced to tell the writer if his 

 conjecture be right, or set him right if he is wrong. One of the 

 charities of the ancient world, and one of the most practical, 

 useful, and cheapest, is to show strangers their way courteously, 

 comiter viam erranti monstrare. 



Another suggestion, ere we conclude, is offered to far-off stu- 

 dents of East Anglian botany, viz. to make Norwich their head- 

 quarters instead of Yarmouth or Lowestoft. There are several 

 advantages which suggest this. First, there is greater space for 

 excursions in all directions ; at Yarmouth the visitor is cut off 

 from one entire side, viz. the eastern, by the sea. He may have 

 twice as many excursions from Norwich as he can have from 

 Yarmouth, without going over the same ground more than once. 

 Again, the number of trains leaving and arriving in the former, 

 renders it more eligible for a botanist. There are two stations 

 at Yarmouth, but only few trains leave in the course of the day. 

 Again, there is a museum and a good herbarium at Norwich, and 

 some one will always be found there to give needful information 

 to a stranger. Lastly, the expense of travelling from Norwich 

 to Yarmouth and Lowestoft was less than from Yarmouth to 

 Norwich. 



The following brief remarks are made with the intention of 

 giving strangers some idea of the formation and aspect of Nor- 

 folk, one of the largest counties of England. This county pos- 

 sesses but slight inequalities of surface, and has no great variety 

 of soil. It is a series of marshy flats and sandy plains of incon- 

 siderable elevation. 



The traveller who enters it via Cambridge, first crosses the 

 Little Ouse, which drains the western parts of the county, ap- 

 parent by a continuation of the eastern lowlands. The railway 

 crosses Thetford Heath, an immense tract of land which will 

 probably, at no very distant period, succumb to the plough and 

 harrow, and be as celebrated for its barley as it has long been 

 for its rare plants and rabbit-warrens. 



Between Harling Eoad and Wymondham, the railroad passes 

 through a tract which has been long in tillage, and it is tolerably 

 productive. The soil is a light sandy loam, not unfertile, and 

 very easily cultivated. 



