Sw, & & fk WOR. 
rouch fhore, of little rocks and ftones. At Holkham, Wells, and Wareham, the 
fandy fhores terminate in-little hillocks of fand, kept together by the 4rundo Are- 
naria, or Bent, the great prefervative againft the inundations of fand, which would 
otherwife deftroy whole tracts of country, and in particular foon render ufelefs the 
range of falt-marfhes which thefe are backed with. Hun/lanton cliff rifes a diftin- 
guifhed feature in this fat tra&. The furface is the ufual vegetable mould, about 
a foot deep; beneath that are two feet of fmall broken pieces of chalk: the folid 
ftratum of the fame, after having been loft for numbers of miles, here again makes 
its appearance, and forms a folid bed thirty feet in thicknefs, refting on a hard red 
ftone four feet deep, which is often ground and made intoa red paint. Seven feet 
of loofe friable dirty yellow ftone fucceeds, placed on a bafe of iron-colored plumb- 
- pudding-ftone, projecting into the fea, with vaft fragments fcattered over the beach.. 
This cliff is about eighty feet high, lies on the entrance of the wafhes, the Metaris 
Efiuarium of Ptolemy. From hence, all the coaft by Snettijham to Lynn is low, flat,, 
and fhingly. 
From Holm, the northern promontory of Norfolg, the fea advances deeply weft- 
ward, and forms the great bay called the Wajhes, filled with vaft fand-banks, the 
fummits of which are dry at low water; but the intervening channels are the 
means of ptodigious commerce to Lynn in Norfolk, feated on the Ouze, which is 
circulated into the very inland parts of our ifland, through the various rivers which 
fall into its long courfe. Lynn is mentioned in the Doomfday Bock ; but became 
confiderable for its commerce with Norway as early as the year 1284. 
The oppofite fhore is that of Lizcolnfhire. Its great commercial town, Bo/fon, 
fiands on the Witham, a few miles from the head of the bay. Spring-tides rife at 
the quay fourteen feet,-and convey there veffels of above a hundred tons; but 
greater fhips lie at the Scap, the opening of the eftuary. Such is the cafe at Lynx ; 
for the fluggifh rivers of thefe tame tracts want force to form a depth of water. 
Lincolnfbire, and part of fix other counties, are the Pais-bas, the Low Countries 
of Britain; the former bounded on the weftern part by a range of elevated land, 
which, in this humble county, overlooks, as 4/ps would the ocean, the remaining 
part. This very extenfive tract, from the Scap to the northern headland oppofite 
to Hull, prefents to the fea a bow-like and almoft unindented front; and fo low as 
to be vifible from fea only at a {mall diftance; and churches, inftead of hills, are 
the only landmarks to feamen. The whole coaft is fronted with falt-marfhes or 
fand-hills, and fecured by artificial banks againft the fury of the fea. Old Holinj- 
head gives a long lift of ports on this now inhofpitable coaft. MWaynflect, once a 
noted haven, is at-prefent a mere creek. Skegnefs, once a large walled town, with a 
good harbour, is now an inconfiderable place a mile from the fea; and the port of 
Grime/oy; 
Wil 
LIncotNnssire. 
