PREFACE. 



E!N years ago a book on Broadland would have needed a lengthy intro- 

 duction the likeness of its spreading lagoons, their whereabouts, 

 attractions, and delights would have required treatment in detail to 

 have become intelligible to many who live outside the county that 

 boasts their possession. Now everyone knows them, many by a personal 

 inspection, most by repute. In summer crowds of yachting folk, and excursionists 

 by rail, steamer, and road, visit these reed-surrounded, coot-haunted waters. But 

 to know them thoroughly is to visit them at every season of the year a privilege 

 beyond the means or possibilities of all save the favoured few who live ' upon the 

 spot.' 



'Man and Nature on the Broads' will undoubtedly prove interesting to both 

 those who know them and those who would like to, and as it is the first venture 

 which has professed to give anything like an all-the-year-round glimpse of its 

 people and bird life and general aspects, it may be equally acceptable. 



The advance of education, an altered state of agriculture, and several other 

 causes operating such as will be further commented upon in some of the chap- 



