NORFOLK. 
{ome counties, “ they are here worked eight hours in winter, 
and ten in fummer, by two journies, as they are termed, 
which enables them to do confiderably more than they would 
y one jonrney.”” The ploughings are repeated till ile land 
is in high tilth, when it is completely pulverized with drags 
i pelted which are e violently drawn, by the horfes ead 
whole county may be ftated at ‘three quarters of iia and 
four of barley, and other articles in proportion, 
Oats are fown only as a fhifting crop, and ieee are feldom 
more raifed than what are confumed eae the county. 
Other ait are rye, buck-wheat, peas, , vetches, or 
tares, cole-feed, clog rs, rye and other aad. graffes ; 
burnet, Te oksfeot chickery, cabbages, mangel-wurzel, lu- 
cerne, ene, and pota‘oes. Among what are termed ir 
egular- crops may be reckoned a which is ack 
cultiv io between March and Wifbeach. : ey 
grown in the fouth-weltern diftri@, and in fom ad- 
e par 
Flax is cultivated in the af 
and near Outwell. mp is alfo grown rear 
Old Buckenham, eae Harlefton, ra but not in fuch 
abundance as might bee 
Butter is made Gee a in confiderable quantities, and e 
ported under the name of Cambridge butter. The pr evaling 
fyitem being arable, the grafs lands of Norfolk have bee 
too generally negleGed: but by the late praCtice of eee ea 
they. are now greatly improved; and by the adoption of 
under-draining and irrigation, the ene land is experi- 
encing very confiderable advantages 
Of particular Ths as fara ie. e part of hufbandry 
in which Norfolk ttands pre- eminent ~ which has led to 
its turnip crops. 
This valuable winter root was eile alta in gardens, as 
a culinary plant, in this country, till the reign of George 
sl vifco ad attende 
Han of flate 
lg cf the held ealtation of turnips in that eleétorate, 
= his return brought with him the feed, and regommended 
o his teaants in Norfolk, ole sieteae land of a fimilar 
sali to that of Hanover xperiment fucceeded 
equal to expeCtation, and the practice eiaaly {pread over 
the cou:.ty, atid made its way into feveral other parts of the 
kingdom. This important root has been proprciney ring 
to its prefent ftate for upwards of rears, «A 
acre of eee in eines will ee be: ween 30 a ic 
cart-loads, ivy as three horfes draw ; 
will fatten a eos caer from io: to 
theep. ut the advantage of this crop ce not 3 for 
it generally leaves the laud fo clean, and 1n fuc 
tion, that it almof ne res a good crop of seme and kin 
plant of mal, ; and the clover is a moft excelent prepara- 
tive for wheat, fo ces in the fubfequent advantages the 
value of the “op can fcarcely be ettimated.” 
No county has exhibited a greater pee and number o 
implements fur facilitating the operations of hufbandry me 
Norfolk, ror ev.nced more readinefs in applying them t 
practice. Amorg whee!-carriages, the non-defcript cne 
called a oe or ely akrin is curious. It is the 
common cart, n harveft, 0 er preffing circum. 
flances, a a Gone of t condone: Rreles are placed under 
the fhafts, and two oblique ladders to the frame, by which it 
is made to anfwer the purpofe of a waggon: ¢€ and in {mall 
farms it is a real objec of utility; and in large ones, of 
great affittance in a bufy feafon.” Drills are of ail Sa 
but a drill-roller i is perhaps reculiar to this sol It is 
diftance from each other. his being 
drawn over the vloughed land, makes indentations, and the 
feed fown broad-caft, chiefly falls into the drills, and is thus 
more regularly and better depofited than in the common 
mode of fowin 
he powers of fleam were firft applied to the purpofes of 
agriculture in this county, and the firft, fteam-engine was fet 
up by colonel Buller of Haydon. It poffefles the power of 
ten horfes; turns a large threfhing inachine, a corn-mill, a 
chaff-cutter, and performs at the fame time feveral other 
labours of eat hufbandry. 
aes and pofts with atl: for partially eating off turnips, 
r depalturing grafs lands. Regaming land from the fea 
has, in Fiala Glance. been faccefafully practifed. At 
Tichw i 
n. 
the chief 1 sey aa ciel of this kind, which has liven been 
made, was performed in Marfhland by count Bentinck, 
who, in the apaniet iy . his plan, loft his life. His fon 
has, however, continued to purfue it, and perfeverance has 
crowned him with ase face, The count’s embankment 
extends about four miles in lengt 
Ancient Hiftory and Antiquities of the County.—Anterior to 
the Roman eolenizacion of Britain, the diftri€& now called 
Norfolk, with the c ontiguous c aren was 
tribe of Britons called Iceni, and another clafs denominated 
Ceno:nanni, or Cenimagni. Acco eee to Whitaker, (Hif- 
tory of Manchetter, vol. i. 62. e latter occupied 
oe near he ilar as their an or “chief ei city. Thefe, 
as well a rinobante es, = were ae to the fouth of 
overawe the conquered native 
formed and garrifoned within he limits of this county, or in 
its immediate Maarite viz. Branudonum arlanonum, 
i us, and Ad-Tu uam;  befides 
which, feveral foborainae. Caltra-Eftiva, and Stativa- 
| bead. were alfo formed. Of the latter kind, according 
fo writers, were Buxton, Caltor near Yarmouth, 
Buckenham, Caftle-Acre, and Elham. At thefe 
have —- difcovered feveral coins, urns, and oth 
of that people. Thefe and ee furtifications, 
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Under his controul the ftations on the eaft 
fide of the ifland were placed, the garrifons of which are 
ated to have confifted of 2200 infantry, and 200 cava'ry. 
Thefe numbers are fet down in the Notitia, which was 
fla in the reign of the younger Theodofius, about the 
r4to. But asthis allowance of troops was inadequa 
op the defence of each ftation, and confequently info 
