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what is called Weft Norfolk, and is the part which 

 Mr. Young defcribed in his firft Norfolk Tour; 

 and on account of the three great houfes of Holk- 

 ham, Houghton, and Rainham, is the part which 

 ft rangers are mod acquainted with. It is here 

 that great farms are to be found, with a thin popu- 

 lation (c)y and if it were not for the occafional 

 afliftance derived from the eaftern part of the 

 county, there would often be a want of hands in 

 the harveft, and other bufy feafons (d). 



The hundreds of Shropham, Guiltcrofs, Wey- 

 land, South Greenhoe, and Grimfhoe, lying 

 fouth-weft of Norwich, run upon a ftill lighter 

 fand ; fo light, that in the lafl mentioned hundred, 

 the fand very often, in a high wind, drifts from one 

 parifh to another. This is the part where the great 

 rabbit warrens are found, which upon this foil pay 

 better than any other thing the land could be ap- 

 propriated to. 



Marfhland may be confidered as a hundred by 

 itfelf. The foil is a rich ooze, evidently a depolit 

 from the fea : the north part is highly productive; 

 but the fouth part very much injured for want of 

 better drainage, which, it is prefumed, will now be 

 efFeCted, as there was a bill paifed in the lafl fek 

 lion of parliament for that purpofe, 



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