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a few trout in most of these waters, but com- 

 mon fish are the staple commodities. 



NOBFOLK. 



The rivers in this county are the Ouse, which 

 skirts the county and divides it from Cam- 

 bridgeshire, the Ya^ the Wensum, the Wave- 

 my, the Bure, and the Nar. 



The Yare flows through extensive marshy 

 valleys, in which there are considerable pools 

 of water, called u broads " and u mares." The 

 Wensum rises at Oxwich, in the neighbour- 

 hood of Fakenham, which it passes, and then 

 flows in a winding course, full forty-five miles 

 to the town of Norwich. Two miles below 

 the waters of the Yare fall into it, and it then 

 takes a north-east course, for twenty miles, 

 until it expands into a broad sheet of water, 

 called Breydon Water, four miles long, and 

 full a mile in breadth. It reaches the German 

 Ocean after a run of seventy-four miles. 



The Waveney rises at Lopham, and flows 

 eastward, and passes Digs ? Bungay, and Beccles, 

 to its junction with the Yare, a distance of full 

 fifty miles. 



The Bure rises, near to Melton -Constable, 

 and passes by Aylsham, and falls into the 

 Yare, after a run of fifty miles. The Taes 



