a CLIMATE. SOIL. 



SECT. II. CLIMATE. 



There are several points of the compass from which 

 lie north and north-east winds blow more direflly on 

 this county than on any other in the kingdom : we fcei 

 these winds severely in Suffolk ; but Norfolk is still more 

 exposed to them, and the climate consequently colder, and 

 more backward in the Spring. Another circumstance 

 which must have some effedl on the climate, is the whole 

 western boundary being the fens and marshes of Lin- 

 colnshire and Cambridgeshire, to the amount of 5 or 

 600,000 acres ; but this is more likely to affecl the salu- 

 britv of the air relative to the human bodv, than to the 

 produiSts of the earth. 



SECT. III. — SOIL. 



The annexed Map will best explain tlie great divisions 

 of the soil of Norfolk. I travelled many miles, in order 

 to give it as much accuracy as such a sketch admits, short 

 of an attention that would demand years rather than 

 months, perfe£tly to ascertain. 



Entering the county from the south-west, the district of 

 sand extends from Garboldsham to the fens of Hockwold 

 and Methwold ; contradting its breadth between Stoke and 

 Pickenham, continues to Congham and South Rainham ; 

 and then diverging both to the east and west, fills up the 

 whole north-eastern part of the county to Hindringham, 

 and then taking a south-easterly diredlion, bends again to 

 the north to Barningham, and strikes the sea at Over- 

 strand. But this sandy district is again divisible into light 

 and good sand; the former to the south of the line from 

 Winch to SwafFham, and the latter to the north. The 

 southern part comprehends by far the poorest part of the 

 county, a considerable portion of which is occupied by 



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