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and whiting may also be taken. The deep water here is 

 more frequented than many other parts of Breydon by fowl, 

 and heavy shots are made, either at early dawn or dewy eve, 

 and being so far away from the town of Yarmouth (some 

 three or four miles), the shore shooters are not so likely to 

 disturb the punter when laying-to fowl. 



Those visiting the neighbourhood for the purpose of shoot- 

 ing on Breydon Water will do well to pass some of their time 

 moored to the 

 Dicky Works, or in 

 the above - men- 

 tioned creek. 



Breydon Water 

 is one of the largest 

 lagoons in the 

 Broadland district, 

 and when the 

 weather is at all 

 foggy or hazy one 

 cannot see across it. 

 It is about five 

 miles long and one 

 mile broad. The 

 channel by which 

 vessels cross and 

 re-cross is marked 

 out by posts set a 

 hundred yards or 

 more apart, but the 

 shallows extend some way beyond the posts, and a local 

 knowledge is required to navigate a yacht successfully 

 against wind and tide, unless one does not object to occa- 

 sionally " touching the putty," as the yachtsmen say, or, in 

 other words, running aground. 



At high water the mud fiats are entirely covered, at low 

 water they are bare, with channels or creeks dissecting them 

 in every direction ; whilst being but a mile from the sea, the 



THK PUTTY. 



