AGRICULTURAL SURVEY 



OF 



NORFOLK. 



CHAPTER r. 



GEOGRAPHICAL STATE. 



SECT. I. — EXTENT. 



A CCORDING to TempLeman's Survey of tht 

 Globe, Norfolk is 57 miles in length and 35 ift 

 breadth, and contains 1426 square geographic miles. Mr. 

 Kent makes the greatest length, from east to west, 59 

 miles, and its greatest breadth,, from north to south, 38; 

 containing 17 10 square miles, and 1,094,400 statute 

 acres. It contains 33 hundreds, one city, four sea-port 

 towns, 25 other market-towns, and 756 parishes; a greater 

 number than any other county in the kingdom. Mr. 

 How LET contends that Norfolk is larger than Essex, 

 which is estimated at 1,240,000 acres. As this point 

 was therefore doubtful, I had the area of the county on 

 the new and very accurate map, measured carefully by the 

 map. engraver to the Board, whose measurement gives 

 1830 square miles. 



NORFOLK,] B SECT. 



