1782. 



NORFOLK; 



MARRAM. 



cart away the rich top-mould for bottoms of H2. 

 dunghills, &c. andcaft, at his cafe, the marl COAST HUSB. 

 or clay which lies beneath it ? 1 faw no trace 

 of a regular plan of this kind, either in this 

 ride, or in the journey to Yarmouth. 



Going below- cliff gave me an opportunity 

 of feeing more fully the nature of the marram 

 plant. The leaves proceed from a fmall crown, 

 from whence, downward, proceeds a long fimple 

 hollow root, with verticils of fibres at different 

 diftances,- according to the depth ; the upper 

 ones being only two or three^ but the lower 

 Ones eight or ten inches, afunder. I meafured 

 one root eight feet long, and I apprehend the 

 length is generally equal to the depth of the 

 fand-bank. In mowing marram for thatch, 

 the workmen keep their fithes an inch or 

 more under the furface of the fand. Marram 

 upon a cultivated foil (a ditch bank) grows 

 with a broad flat blade, and does not take that 

 rulhlike form which it appears in upon the fand* 

 banks. 



Norfolk Hujbandty. In a large inclo'fure near 

 ingham were thirty fine Scotch bullocks (be- 

 longing to a capital grazier in that neighbour- 

 hood) ; fome fat, others fatting ; weighing from 

 fifty to fixty ftone a bullock ; confequently 

 S i worth. 



NORFOLK 

 HUSBAN0, 



