CHAPTER XVII 



HORSEY DISTRICT 



FROM Hickling Broad there 

 is a good excursion to Horsey 

 Mere in the dinghy. A course 

 must be steered over Heig- 

 ham Sounds and up the 

 narrow and shallow dyke 

 which connects the two 

 stretches of water. 



Horsey Mere was at one time cele- 

 brated for pike, but is now so over- 

 grown with weeds that the fishing has 

 become almost a dead letter. Shooting 

 was also good, but at the present day 

 it has fallen off wonderfully on account 

 of the number of boats which go back- 

 wards and forwards, and little or 

 nothing is to be obtained. 



There is a small cut to the north of 

 the mere, which runs to Sea Palling and 

 Lessingham, past Calthorpe Broad, but 

 this district is only of interest to the 

 ,5, DAB ' C "! CK . botanist or to the seeker after moths 



(Mergus Mtnor). 



and butterflies. 



Another small dyke leads from Horsey Mere back to the 

 River Thurne, touching the river close to the entrance to Mar- 

 tham Broad; a private water, the fishing on which is not 

 very good, and the same may be said of the shooting. 



On Heigham Sounds, and in the neighbourhood of Hickling, 



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