iS AGRICULTURAL SURVEY 



Section v. 



ROADS, NAVIGATION, & RIVERS, 



Jl HE roads ia this county, afford the farmer a 

 very great advantage over many other parts of 

 England, being free from Houghs, in ail parts (ex- 

 cept the marines), and though the foil is fandy, it 

 refills the preffure of the wheels at a fmall diflance 

 from the furface, and the ruts are kept (hallow at a 

 very little expence ; and after the longed and hard- 

 eft rain, become dry and plcafant in a few days, 

 which is not only an agreeable circumftance to a 

 traveller, but a great comfort to cattle in their 

 drift ; fo that I may venture to fay, that the roads 

 are better, in their natural (late, than in almofl any 

 other county ; fo good, that no turnpike vvas 

 thought of in Norfolk, till they became common in 

 moil other parts; fo good, that Charles II. when 

 he honoured the Earl of Yarmouth with a vifit 

 at Oxnead, is faid to have obferved (a), that Nor- 

 folk ought to be cut out in flips, to make roads 

 for the reft of the kingdom; by which he undoubt- 

 edly meant to compliment the county upon the 



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