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narrow, fhaded, and never mended : they are 

 numerous, however, efpecially the bridle- 

 roads ; fo that a traveller, on horfcback, has 

 generally the choice of two or three ways, 

 of nearly equal length, to the fame place. 

 Not a foot of turnpike-road in the DiMridl ; 

 excepting the road between Nor'wich and Yar- 

 mouth. 



The inclosures are, in general, fmal!, 

 and the hedges high and full of trees. This 

 has a fmgular efFtd; in travelling through the 

 country: the eye feems ever on the verge of a 

 foreft, which is, as it were by enchantment, 

 ^continually changing intoinclofures and hedge- 

 rows. There is not, generally fpeaking, a 

 piece of wood-land or a coppice in the whole 

 Diflrid ; and even plantations are thinly and 

 partially fcattered. A common or a heath 

 (vvhich not unfrequently occurs even in this 

 part of Norfolk) is the only variety the face 

 of the country affords. Some remnants of 

 common-fields ftill remain ; bur, in general, 

 they are not larger than well-fized inciofures. 

 Upon the whole, Eaft-Norfolk at large may 

 be fald to be a very old-in'closed country. 



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