NORFOLK. 
saa of thefe rivers rife in marfhy lands, a running 
throu gh s confe- 
quently 
lands, and in hee courfe form numerous, fmall, fhallow 
Jakes or pools, which are provincially termed Broads and 
Meers. 'Thefe are plentifully ftocked with fifh, and much 
frequented by water-fowls. - The principal of them are in 
that diftriG through which the Bure, the Wenfur, and 
the Waveney have their courfe. Breedon, or Breydon- 
Broad, to the fouth of Yarmouth, is three miles in length, 
and one mile and a half in breadth. Hickling-Broad is 
and about one wide. ‘That of 
ong, and half a mile wide. 
thefe are feveral others of {maller extent, 
and of irregular dimenf ns. There are others at Quiden- 
i i In the fenny diftri€ts many tem- 
porary ones are formed during the winter feafons, in the 
neighbourhood of which are numerous decoys for catching 
owl, 
Canals.—With refpe& to inland navigation, little more 
has yet been done in this county than widening and cleanfing 
the beds of the natural rivers, and rendering them fubfer- 
vient to the purpofes of internal conveyance. Much has 
been accomplifhed for a fituation fo circumttanced as Nor- 
folk, and much more remains to exercife the ingenuity, and 
call forth the public Hoa of the peovle. A canal has been 
completed from Wifbeach in Cambridgethire, to Outwell 
cet and Salter’s Load in Norfolk, an extent of about 
fix fi mes, to render the navigation of the river Nene mo 
effect few y go a propefition was brought for- 
—Fro e roads 
Norfolk might ie pein to be bad; but the aie 3 of this 
is generally the cafe. By a comparative ftatement, according 
: r. Kent yw ‘“‘ are better in their natural ftate in this 
ban in almo other county.”? At the time king 
Charles Il. oad a ait to the earl of Yarmouth at Oxnead, 
in the year 1671, when roads had not been improved by 
ie aid of tolls, he i is faid to have remarked, “that Norfolk 
repair at a moet expence. Although this poly claim 
the credit of having made the firft road, in compliance ° with 
the Turnpike Act; yet, fince that period, moft other 
‘animal, with a 
fifty miles. Befides thefe, there are many public ways, 
thirty and forty feet wide, which are equally commodious 
for travelling, without the interruption a expence of toll. 
ars ; having mile-ftones and finger-po 
for the direction of travellers. Some 
ve cow, a {mall animal, with fhort turned-up 
“ pectentie to the Alderaey,’’ is generally of a 
red colour ; not a good milcher, but hardy, and calculated 
for barren paftures, Great part of this county is known 
fo) 
of it was rabbit warrens and fhee 8. 
were as natural to ap foil as the rabbits, being hardy in 
their nature, and o agile conftru ion, fo asto m 
over a great {pace an “little labour.” Among the fares 
this breed of fheep is called Norfolks. It is a hardy horned 
lack nofe, and feet of the fame colour ; 
carries a fleece of nearly two a ; and, when fatted, 
weighs es eighteen pounds per quarter 
th 
for bacon is very adopted here. The quan 
{wine has been diminithed by decline of dairy farms, and 
the areal of the waite la 
fent to the moft diftant parts of the kin It has been 
computed, that more turkies are bred in ais and the ad- 
joining county of Suffolk, than in the whole kingdom 
befides. ‘They are commonly driven on foot to London, 
and to other diftant places. During one feafon, upwards 
of three huridred of thefe flocks, of fome hundreds each, 
have been noticed to pafs Stratford-bridge, on the river 
Stour, in their way to the metropolis; befides what pro- 
ceeded by different routes to the fame ma 
Norfolk furnifhes large ae oflget, which are bred 
in the fenny parts of the cou The dealers have taught 
thefe awkward birds to cael on foot as well as turkies ; 
and prodigious numbers of them are fent annually to Lon- 
don from the neighbourhood of Crier _ and 
Lynn. The driving . thefe t erg 
che beginning of Auguit, wh te 
houfed, the ftubbles furnith provifions re 
pyeee fed pa the night. La ane hee gollings eieckana, 
caufe it is made an objet of 
this county. Thefe profitable little animals are here ex- 
tremely numerous; occafioned not only by ar natural 
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fecundi Itys 
