FOUND IN NORFOLK. 5 1 



out of the sands at the ebbe for bayt. tis known where 

 they are to bee found by a litle flat ouer them on ye 

 surface of ye sand, as also vermes in tubulis testacei. 

 Also Tethya or sea dugges some whereof resemble 

 fritters [and crossed out] the vesicaria marina also & [see 

 Note 91] fanago sometimes very large conceaued to 

 proceed from some testaceous animals. & particularly 

 \Fol. 35] from the purpura butt [in crossed out] ours 

 more probably from other testaceous wee hauing not 

 met with any large purpura upon this coast. 



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Many riuer fishes also and animals. Salmon^* no 

 comon fish in our riuers though many are taken in the 

 owse. in the Bure or north riuer, in ye waueney or 

 ^outh riuer, in ye [yare or crossed out] norwich riuer butt 



(Buccinum undatum), which are very commonly found in masses on the 

 shore. In his sixth letter to Merrett, Browne mentions two kinds of 

 " fanago," the first which I take to be the egg capsules of the Whelk, 

 resembhng the "husk of peas;" the smaller that of "barley when the 

 flower [awn ?] is mouldered away," may possibly be the egg capsules of 

 Purpura lapillus, or of some species of Natica, which bear a fanciful 

 resemblance to grains of barley. See also Merrett's second letter in 

 Appendix A., in which he describes the Vesicaria found on oyster-shells 

 as resembling flowers of Hyacinthus botryoides, which is not a bad 

 description of the form of the egg capsules of P. lapillus. 



^2 The Salmon (Salmo salar) is at the present day very rarely found in 

 our rivers, and those met with are, as a rule, male Kelts which have strayed 

 into unsuspected situations after floods ; a singular exception occurred on 

 the 20th May, 1897, when one weighing 6 lbs. was taken on a fly in the 

 river above Stoke Holy Cross Mill ; this fish is preserved in the Norwich 

 Museum. Another curious capture of which I heard (but did not see the 

 fish) occurred on the 1st August, 1898, when a salmon, also of 6 lbs. weight, 

 jumped into a small boat towed behind a yacht which was sailing across 

 Breydon Water. That the salmon was at one time a recognised visitor to 

 our rivers is evident from the following extract from the Norwich Court of 

 Mayoralty Book under date 2 Novr. 1667: "It is ordered that the bell 

 man give notice that if any person shall take any Salmons from the 

 Nativity of our Lady unto St. Martin's day, or destroy any young Salmons 

 by netts or other ingens from the midst of April until the Nativity of St. 



