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nice, with the lofs of all his property, and lived there for 
fome years, probably fupported by the liberality of feme 
of the nobles. In 1577 he was appointed by thofe of his 
nation to plead for them before the doge ; and not only ob¬ 
tained for them a fettletnentin the city of Pola with many 
privileges, but procured for liimfelf Un appointment to 
the chair of moral philofophy at Padua. He there wrote 
the greated part of his works, and continued to exercife 
his profeflional charge till his death in 1590. 
Jafon de Notes wrote feveral works both in Latin and 
Italian, befides that already mentioned. The chief of his 
Italian works are, 1. The Poetics, Padua, 1588, 4to. 2. 
A Treatife on Republics, 1578, 4to. which he forms on 
the model of that of the Venetians, his mailers. 3. A 
Treatife on the World and its Parts, Venice, 1571, 8vo. 
4. Introduction to three books of Aridotle’s Rhetoric; 
Venice, 1584, 4to. 5. A Treatife on what Comedy, Tra¬ 
gedy, and Epic Poetry, may receive from Moral Philofo¬ 
phy. His Latin works are, 6. Inditutio in Philofophiam 
Ciceronis; Padua, 1576, 8vo. 7. Brevis et diltin&a fumma 
Praeceptorum de Arte Difcendi, ex libris Ciceronis col- 
leCta ; Venice, 1553, 8vo. 8. De Conditutione partium 
humanas et civilis Philofophiae, 4to. 9. Interpretafio in 
artenr poeticam Horatii, &c. In all his works we remark 
great perfpicuity and accuracy, profound erudition, happy 
exprellions, an elevated and fometimes forcible ftyle. 
As he was much attached to the principles of Ariftotle, 
both in philofophy and letters, he made an attack upon 
the Pallor Fido of Guarini at its firll appearance, which 
gave occafion to a long and warm controverfy. 
His days were fhortened by grief for the banilhment of 
liis Ion Peter, who had killed a noble Venetian in a quarrel. 
This fon, however, afterwards role to didin&ion in the 
court of Rome: he was fucceflively fecretary to feveral 
cardinals; at once a man of letters and a man of bulinefs ; 
he left behind him fome valuable manuferipts; among 
others, the life of Paul IV. in Italian. 
NOR'FOLK, a county of England, fo called from its 
northern fituation in refpeCt of Suffolk, (though fituated 
on the eaftern fide of the ifland,) is bounded on the ealt 
and north by the German Ocean ; on the fouth by Suffolk, 
from which it is parted by the rivers Waveney and the 
Little Oufe ; and on the well it is feparated from Cam- 
bridgelhire by the Greater Oufe, and from a fmall part of 
Lincolnfhire by the Wallies. The area thus enclofed is 
nearly of a circular form, and difplays almoll a flat fur- 
face : i. e. it has no prominent hills nor deep valleys. 
It is fo furrounded by its marine and river boundary, 
that it may be confidered almoll an ifland, being con¬ 
nected with the adjacent land to the fouth folely by a 
narrow caufeway, railed through the inarlhes, near Lop- 
ham. The iongelt diameter is in the direction of eall to 
welt, from Yarmouth to Wilbeach ; and the conjugate 
diameter, north and fouth, from Wells to Billingford. 
Templeman ellimates the former to be 57 miles, and the 
latter 35. He alfo Hates the contents to be 1426 fquare 
geographical miles; but Mr. Kent, whole lkill and ac¬ 
curacy in furveying appears preferable, dates, in his 
General View of the Agriculture of Norfolk, the greateft 
length to be 59 miles, and the greatell breadth to be 38, 
comprifmg an area of 1710 fquare miles, and 1,094,400 
Hatutt-acres. Mr. Young, not being fatislied with this 
llatement, had the latell furvey of the county carefully 
meafured; the refult of which meafurement gives 1830 
fquare miles for fuperficies ; and this countenances Mr. 
Howlett’s opinion, that Norfolk is larger than Effex, 
which is ellimated to contain 1,240,000 llatute-acres. 
It is divided into thirty-three hundreds, containing one 
city (Norwich), four fea-ports, twenty-five other market- 
towns, and 756 parilhes; a greater number than any other 
county in the kingdom. 
From the fituation of the county, parts of it being ex- 
pofed to the ocean, and others to a large extent of marlh¬ 
land, the air is extremely cold in winter, and at the early 
part of fpring. North and north-ealterly winds, it has 
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been -obferved, are more prevalent here than In any other 
part of the kingdom. Thefe are feverely felt, and vege¬ 
tation is confequently backward. Whoever has vifited 
this county in the fpring, and has previoufly examined 
the operations of nature in the midland didriCls, will be 
furprifed at the backward appearance of the crops, and at 
the fight of nature dwindling under the apparent influence 
of even a genial fun. In the hundred of Marlhland, and 
other fenny parts of the county, the air is not only cold, 
but exceedingly damp; and the inhabitants are fubjeft 
to intermitting fevers. Thefe are endemial ; fo that ftran- 
gers, on their firft refidenee, are generally attacked with 
agues; on which occafion they are proverbially faid to be 
“ arreded by the bailiff of Marfhland.” The county to 
the north and north-well of Thetford, forming the greater 
part of Norfolk, confiding of a fandy or gravelly foil, is 
peculiarly falubrious and pleafant. 
The face of Norfolk may be confidered as lefs varied 
in its features than that of any traCl of country of equal 
extent in the kingdom. In the northern parts, the ge¬ 
neral furface is fomewhat broken into moderate eleva¬ 
tions and depreflions ; where turf-clad hills and fertile 
valleys are diverfified by woods, coppices, hedge-rows, 
and other enlivening fylvan decorations. The cottages 
and fmall farm-houfes are many of them of wattle and dab, 
or lath and plafter, and covered with thatch : there are 
fome, however, neatly built of brick, and roofed with 
date or pantile. Numerous good houfes of opulent yeo¬ 
men, and the feats of the nobility and gentry, adorn 
many parts of the county. The furface, Mr. Kent ob- 
ferves. except about Norwich, and on the coall near Sher- 
ringham and Cromer, is chiefly a dead flat, the afpeCt 
uniform ; and, as the mod intereding parts lie to the 
fouth-wed, where flrangers generally enter the county, 
it mud offer to them a dreary and forbidding appearance. 
The entrance from the fouth, by way of Colcheder, how¬ 
ever, brings the traveller into a fine rich country, towards 
the north and north-ead ; and thefe parts, being enclofed, 
well cultivated, and abounding with timber, more than 
mod maritime didriCls, exhibit a variety of cheerful feenes 
and pleaiing views. Marlhland may be confidered as a 
diflriCt by itfelf, confiding of ooze formed by depofition 
from the lea. To this may be added a narrow trade of 
fimilar land on the eadern part of the coad near the mouth 
of the rivers Yare and Waveney. This extends a con- 
liderable didance up the county towards Norwich; the 
whole of which, in winter, is generally under water, and 
in the fpring it is expedient to drain it for the purpofes 
of depaduring. There are alfo large traids of fwampy 
ground in the vicinity of Lodham, frequently inundated 
by land-floods, and producing little but fedge and reeds. 
In the fouth-wed part of the county is an extenfive traCl 
of land, which forms part of that inunenfe fenny diltriCl 
which extends out of this county into thole of Cam¬ 
bridge, Northampton, and Huntingdon, alfo into Suffolk 
and Lincolnlhire. 
Norfolk, by fome writers, has been deferibed as a well- 
wooded county; and by others as almoll wholly deditute 
of that intereding vedure: both opinions have proceeded 
from a fuperficial or partial view of the diflriCt. In fome 
parts the hedge-rows abound with numerous trees, which, 
at a didance, by aggregation, give an idea of extenfive 
woods; and in others the great expanfe of heath and 
uninclofed lands, dripped of every timber-tree, exhihit a 
drearinefs which, unrelieved by lylvan feenery, tends to 
imprefs the mind with the idea that Vertumnus, as well 
as Pomona, have negleCted or refufed to take this diflriCt 
under their protection. There are, however, numerous 
woods, but they are partially fcattered through the 
county. The principal are thole of Foxley, in the hun¬ 
dred of Eynsford ; fome to the wedward of Wymond- 
ham, in Forehoe; Shottelham, in Hendead; Alhwellthorpe, 
Hampnell, and Bunwell, in Deepwade; Hethel, Hetherfel, 
and Hetteringham, in Humbleyard. A laudable fpirit 
has prevailed of late among the proprietors of large eflates 
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