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Gofteffey or Colley, is about four miles north-weft of 
Norwich. It is reckoned one of the largeif manors in this 
county, extending itfelfinto upwards of twenty pariihes. 
Sir G. W. Jerningham, bart. is the prefent lord ; and lias 
a right of free-warren over moft of the adjacent villages, 
becaufe the manor has the fuperiority as much as the lord 
of the hundred hath over the reft. The family of the 
Jerningliams have long refined here, and the plantations 
and pleafure-grounds are, in point of rural elegance, par¬ 
ticularly worthy the attention of travellers. Weever 
tells us, that the Jerningham family were of exemplary 
note before the conqueft; and adds that, anno 1030, Ca¬ 
nute king of Denmark and England, after his return 
from Rome, brought divers captains from Denmark, of 
whom Jernegan, or Jerningham, was of moft efteem with 
him. 
Other feats in the vicinity are as follows :—Honingham, 
the feat of lord Bayning.—Eafton Lodge, Wm. Fofter, 
efq.—Wefton Houle, John Cuftance, efq.—Taverham, 
Mr. Branthwaite.—Drayton, Charles Wefton, efq.—Strat¬ 
ton Strawlefs, Robert Marlliam, efq.— Catton, Jeremiah 
Harvey, efq. Robert Harvey, efq. Jeremiah Ives, efq. and 
fir Edw. Berry, bart.—Wroxham, S. T. Southwell, efq.—■ 
Salehoufe, R. P. Joddrell, efq.— Rackheath, fir Edward 
Stracey, bart.—Thorpe, John Harvey, efq.—Crown Point, 
Gen. Money.—Kirby Beden, fir J. Berney, bart.—Bixley., 
earl of Rofeberry.—Shottilham, Robert Fellowes, efq.— 
Dunfton, Rev. Mr. Longe.—Bracon Alh, T. F. Berney, 
efq.—Hethel, fir Thomas Beevor, bart.—Melton, fir John 
Lombe, bart.—Kefwick, Richard Gurney, efq. 
Little more than a quarter of a mile from Norwich is 
Moufehole-heath, whereKet, the famous Norfolk tanner, 
harangued his followers in the year 1549, having raifed 
an inlurreftion againft the proteftant government of Ed- 
wardVI. See the article England, vol. vi. p. 643, 4. 
Near the entrance to the heath, there fubfifted, about 
feventy years ago, a large cavern, confiding ot various 
arched vaults, which had been formed, in a long lerie.s 
of time, by digging-out chalk for making lime. It was 
confidered fo remarkable as to be defcribed in the Philo- 
fophical Tranfaftions ; and, though it has lince difap- 
peared by the effefts of a thunder-ftorm, we (hall ext raft 
a few particulars : “ There h only one entrance into if, 
about two yards wide, and nearly the fame height; how¬ 
ever, the height gradually rifes, till at laft it meafures in 
fome places from twelve to fourteen yards. But, though 
the entrance is fo final], the whole area within is ol Inch 
a large extent, that 20,000 men might with great eafe be 
placed in it, and from the entrance to the fartheft part of 
thefe cells meafures full four hundred yards; and thefe 
paflages are often ten or twelve yards wide, with branch- 
ings-out on the fides, into various lanes and labyrinth- 
kind of windings, which every now-and-then open into 
each other; which renders it no eafy talk to find the way 
out, when a perfon has been a little bewildered in thele 
fubterraneous mazes. Moft of thefe vaults are arched at 
top, by which the immenfe weight above is w'ell fup- 
ported ; a weight no lefs than that of hills, whole per¬ 
pendicular altitude above the tops of thefe arches is 
twenty or thirty yards, if not much more. How deep or 
thick thefe rocks of chalk are, no one can tell; for in 
finking the lowed wells, they have never been dug 
through ; and confequently muft be exceedingly deep. 
The chalk at the farther end of this cavern is lb very loft, 
that it may be moulded with the hand like pafte ; which is 
probably its original confidence, and what it always re¬ 
tains till it becomes expofed to the air. In the very 
lowed parts of thefe vaults were found feveral kinds of 
fofiils, figured by marine bodies ; fuch as echini, peftun- 
culi, common or fluted cockle, belemnitas, &c. Sounds 
made beneath thefe arched roofs are ftrongly reflefted 
from fide to fide; -fo that the lead whifper may be heard 
at a confiderable diftance. ft he beat of a pocket-watch 
was heard diftinftly full twenty yards from where it was 
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placed.” A terrible thunder-ftorm, June 12, .(748, (hook 
the earth to fiuch a degree as to throw down thefe chalk- 
vaults. See Phil. Traiif. vol. xlv. See alfo Archaeologia, 
vol. xv. Beauties of England, vol. xi. Wilkes’s Britilh 
Directory, vol. iv. Gent. Mag. Oft. 1818. Monthly Mag. 
Apr. 1819. 
NOR'WICH, a city and pod-town of United America, 
in Connecticut, and of the fecond rank in New London- 
con nty, fituated at the head of Navigation or Thames- 
river; fourteen miles north of New London. This is a 
convenient city, and has an extenfive and rich back- 
country; and, being fituated on a navigable river, has 
convenient feats for mills and water-machines of all kinds. 
The inhabitants manufacture paper of many kinds, dock¬ 
ings, clocks and w'atches, cnaifes, buttons, done and 
earthen w'are, oil, chocolate, wire, bells, anchors, and all 
forts of forge-work. It contains about 300 dwelling- 
lioufes, a court-houfe, two churches for congregational.ifts, 
and one for epifcopalians, and 3476 inhabitants. The 
town confifts of three divisions, viz. Chelfea at the land¬ 
ing, the Town, and Bean-hill, in which latter divifion is 
an academy, and in the town is an endowed fchool. The 
courts of law are held alternately at New London and 
Norwich. This town was fettled in 1660, by thirty-five 
perfons, principally from Saybrook. It is 25a miles north-: 
eaft of Philadelphia. Lat. 41. 34. N. Ion. 72. 29. W. 
NOR'WICH, a confiderable townlhip in Windfor- 
county, Vermont, on the weft fide of Connefticut-river, 
oppofite to Dartmouth-college; containing i486 inha¬ 
bitants.—A townlhip in Hamplhire-county, Maflachufetts.: 
fourteen miles fouth-welt of Northampton; incorporated 
in 1773, and containing 959 inhabitants.—A townlhip in 
Chenango-county, New York ; incorporated in 1793, fet¬ 
tled principally by people from Connecticut, bounded 
foutherly by Oxford : lying fifty-five miles weft of Cherry 
Valley; and containing 2219 inhabitants.—A place now 
called “ Whitby,” in Upper Canada, on the north Ihore 
of Lake Ontario.—A townlhip in Norfolk-county, Upper 
Canada, eaft of and adjoining Dereham. 
NO'SAG, a town of Bengal: twenty miles fouth-fonth- 
eaft of Palatnovv. 
NOSAPOU'R, a town of Hindooftan, in the circar of 
Hindia : ten miles north-eaft of Hurdah. 
NOSCH AL'SKOI, a town of RulTia, in the province of 
Ulftiug: fixty-eight miles foufh-ealt of Lallk. 
NOSE, f [-nfepe, nepe, Sax nafa, Germ, nuz. Norm. 
Fr. naefe, Su. Goth, nafus, Lat. Our word is written nafe 
by Gower. “ Both at mouth and at nafe." Conf. Am. 
B. 3.] The prominence on the face, which is the organ 
of icent and the emunftory of the brain.— Nofe of Turks 
and Tartar’s Wos. Shakefpeave. —Poetry takes me up fo en¬ 
tirely, that I fcarce fee what pafl'es under my nofe. Pope's 
Letters. 
Our decrees, 
Dead to infliftion, to themfelves are dead ; 
And liberty plucks juftice by the nofe. Shahefpcare . 
The end of any thing.—The lungs are as bellows, the 
afperia arteria is the in.fe of the bellows. Holder's Idem, of 
Speech. —Scent; iagacity.-—We are not offended with a dog 
for having a better nofe than his mailer. Collier on Envy. 
ft’he ules of the nofe are, its giving us the fenfe of 
fmeiling; its ferving in the great office of refpiration, and 
in modelling the voice; in receiving the abundant hu¬ 
mours from the eyes, and in adding to the beauty of the 
face. See the article Anatomy, vol. i. p. 600. 
ft'he nofe was by the augurs particularly attended to 
in forming conjeftures concerning future good or ill fuc- 
cefs. The tingling,of the right or left fide of it, for in- 
ftance, was thought to have different fignifications as it hap¬ 
pened to different fexes, or perfons in different conditions. 
In Tartary, the greateft beauties are thofe who have the 
lead nofes. Ruybrock mentions the wife ol the great 
Jenghiz Khan as a celebrated beauty, becaufe Are had only 
two 
