LOCAL FEATURES. 



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Even the present marshes, however, are gradually losing 

 their character by drainage. They consist of vegetable mould, 

 gravel, sand, and mud borne .down by the river and its streams 

 from the adjacent uplands, and are, at their greatest width, 

 three-quarters of a mile across. They mostly produce hay-grass, 

 and occasionally afford a rough grazing-ground for cattle. 



GEOLOGICAL FORMATIONS OF THE DISTRICT. 



(ii.) The Stone Age. Allusion having been made in the 

 Geological sketch to the ancient flint implements found at 

 Hoxne, a short account of some of the forms met with in other 

 parts of the district will not be out of place. The following 

 notes have kindly been made for the purpose by Mr. John A. 

 Holmes from his own and his brother's observations : 



" The implements and weapons of stone picked up in the 



hasty a conclusion. The passage in Swinden (p. 939) occurs in a transcript 

 of the orders sent to the Yarmouth garrison for the defence of the town 

 against the rebels. Amongst the precautions is this : "Item, that a small 

 pinnace do go up to Waybridge, being victualled for four days, having twenty- 

 six men in her." This, I presume, is not "\Veybread near Harleston, which 

 was supplying men and money for Kett and his followers, but Weybridge at 

 Acle on the Bure, about nine miles from Yarmouth. 



