NORFOLK. 
‘peach ; and the conjugate eat north and fouth, from 
Wells to Billingford. Tem n eftimates the former to 
be fifty-feven miles, and aie hee thirty-five. He alf 
ere the contents to be 1426 {quare geographical miles ; 
o 
peas preferable, ftates, in his 
Agriculture of Norfolk, 32 the greateft length to be fifty-nine 
miles, and the greateft breadth to be thirty-eight, com- 
priling an area ie 1710 {quare miles, and 1,094,400 ftatute 
ung, not being fatisfied an this ftatement, 
had ce latent fee of the county carefully meafured ; the 
refult of which again gives 1830 fquare miles for 
fuperficies, and t eae eg s Mr. Ho 
that Norfolk is lager ane which is eftimated to 
contain 1,240,00 
orfolk is divided into a three hundreds, containing 
one city, four fea-ports, twenty-five other market-tow 
and feven hundred and fifty-fix eae 3 a greater number 
than any other county in the kingdon 
Climate, §¢c.—From the fituation of the county, parts of 
it being expofed to i ocean, and others to a large extent 
of marfh-land, the air is extremely cold in winter, and at the 
North and north-eafterly winds, it has 
been obferved, are more prevalent here than in any other 
part of the kingdom 
tion is confequently ae ac 
and the marfhes, with the v 
life; but there does not appear any juft ground for the 
diftinGtion. The vital principle, whatever i may be, is 
evidently homogeneous through ver 
eh examine 
unty, the air is not on vé cold, but 
mp 3 ne the anbabitants are fubje& to inter- 
falubrious and fei 
Surface, general ee Gs ie of the County.—The 
face of oe may be confidered as lefs varied in ‘its 
obferves, eo about Norwich, and on the coait near 
eee and Cromer, is chiefly a dead flat, the afpec 
L. XXV. 
wlett’s opinion, © 
uniform ; and, as the aot interefting parts lie to the fouth- 
wef, where ftrangers generally enter the county, it mui 
offer to them a dreary and forbidding appearance. The 
entrance from the fouth, by way of Colchefter, however, 
brings the traveller into a fine rich country, towards the 
north and north-eaft ; and thefe parts being enclofed, well 
cultivated; and abounding with timber, more than mo 
maritime diftriats, exhibit a variety of cheerful fcenes and 
pleafing views. “ As to the foil,’ obferves Fuller, < here 
are fens and heaths, light ai deep fand and clay- pane 
eadow-lands, and paftures and arable, wood-lands, and 
13.” 
hoe, Gallow, Launditch, Brothercrofs, Smithdon, Free- 
; bridge, and Clackclofe. This is what generally goes by 
the name - bile oe bi confifts Principally of light 
andy lan inferior country two 
preceding “site. 1» "The. a divi, ying | fouth-welt of 
Norwich, comprifes the hundreds o am, Guiltcrofs, 
Weyland, S — agai and Grint confifts of a li ml 
fand; fo lig 
drifts in a per 
aveney. 
This extends a confiderable diftance up the othe towards 
Square Miles cres 
Light fand - - 220 - 140,800 
Good fand_- - 420 - 268,800 
Marfhland clay - 60 - - 38,400 
Various loams - - goo - - 576,000 
Rich loa - 148 - - 941720 
Peat - 32 - - 52,480 
Woods and epg —Norfolk, by fome writers, has 
been deferibed as wooded county; and by others 
as almoft wholly deftitute of that maar 3 vefture : both 
opinions have as ceeded from a fuperficial or partial view 
of the diftri&. In fome ag the eee sais _ 
numerou 
