MAN AND NATURE ON 

 THE BROADS. 



JANUARY IN BROADLAND. 



' He rises early, and he late takes rest, 

 And sails intrepid o'er the wat'ry waste; 

 Waits the return of shot-seal (flight-time) on 



the lake, 



And listens to the wild-fowl's distant quack; 



At dusk steers homeward with a plenteous 



freight.' Life of a Fenman, 1771. 



HE fame of the Broads of Norfolk has become world-wide; books in 

 plenty have been written in praise, and descriptive of them; and folk of 

 other nations besides our own upon them have pleasured and ' browned,' 

 and become familiar with their spreading waters. Our introduction, 

 therefore, need be but brief. Take a map of Norfolk, draw a triangle 

 on its eastern side with Sea-Palling at its apex, with Norwich on the left 



and Yarmouth at its right, and you will include in its area of some 250 square 



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