Ql NORFOLK, 



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(a) Sir Thomas Beevor obferves, "that many flrangers en- 

 " ter the county by way of Colchefter, which brings them 

 " through a fine rich country ;" this I readily admit, and that 

 there is no road of equal length with that, from London to 

 Norwich, where there is lefs uncultivated land or better huf= 

 bandry ; but the number of travellers who come this way 

 are very few in proportion to thofe who come by Newmar- 

 ket and Thetford. 



(b) Sir Thomas fays, " the hundreds of HeRftead, Forchoc, 

 « Mitford, Difs, and Depwade, particularly the two laft, 

 "eonfift almoft wholly of ftiff wet land, many villages having 

 <! fome land which may be called a mere clay." — I have admit- 

 ted that part of them are wet and full of fprings, and that they 

 have a mixture of clay. In general defcriptions of this fort, 

 every thing is comparative. If we contraft this diftriet with 

 the reft of the county, which is confeffedly fandy, Sir Thomas 

 may be right, but compared with Herefordfhire, the Vale of 

 Evefham, and other limilar diftrifts, where ablblute clays 

 abound, I ftill prefume to think I may be right. 



(c) Mr. James and Mr. Wagftaff have in this place taken 

 notice of the bad tendency of large farms, but as I intend to 

 handle that fubjeft in a diftinft Icttion, I fhall hereafter avail 

 myfelf of their judicious remarks upon that great queftion. 



