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OlAKtS Aift) PtOMIfeS. 



lioliday may be made. From Yarmoutli, looking inland, tlirtfd 

 main water-highways radiate. The chief is the Yaro, flowing 

 from the westward ; then comes the Bure, flowing from the 

 "north-westward, and having her Inrga ttibutiries, the Ant and 

 ihe Thurne, flowing from the northward. From the south- 

 west come the clear waters of the Waveney. All these rivers 

 are navigable for considerable distances, aiid on the Bure and 

 its tributaries the greater number of the Broads are situate. 

 These Broads are large siiallow lakes connected with the rivers, 

 and are most of them navigable. Flat marshes follow the lines 

 of the rivers, and while higher and well wooded ground rises 

 near the upper positions of the rivers, near the sea the country 

 is perfectly flat, and vessels sailing on all three rivers are 

 visible at the simo time. There are no impediments to navr* 

 gation of any consequence, so it may be imagined what a 

 ■*' happy hunting ground " this is to the boat'sailor, the 

 "naturalist and the angler. See Davis' Haiulbook of the Rivers 

 and Broads of Norfolk and Suffolk, with map presented to the 

 Foreign and Colonial Commissioners of the great I. F. E. by 

 the publisher. 



38. The exit of these waters is at Yarmouth. At the 

 •distance of 20 wiles by water there is an ebb and flow. This 

 strange country is not heyoml the possibility of a sudden visit 

 from the sea. No ! these light-coloured mounds in the dis- 

 tance are the sea banks of sand, only held together by scanty 

 marram grasses. These sandhills form a very curious barrier 

 between the salt and fresh water. Ikeaches have been made 

 in them by the sea from time to time, notably in the winter of 

 1791 when a very high tide made several gaps, and threatened 

 to overwhelm the marshes inland. The whole district is 

 included in the " Crag formation " of Geology and Miocene 

 and Pliocene (Lyell) which precede the Glacial. Its material 

 is generally loose and incoherent. The want of solidity in its 

 strata, which are sands and clays, accounts for the flatnevss 

 which we have seen to be characteristic of the region. We 

 dhall have occasion, at the proper time, to return to these 

 peculiar formations of Norfolk trnd Suffolk (45)^ At the close 



