NorfolkUniversity Press, 1909 - 156 páginas |
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Abbey acres Anglia Aylsham banks beach beds Blakeney border boundary Brandon Breckland Breydon Water Britain Broadland Broads district built Bure Burnham Caister called Castle chiefly church clay coast-line Cockle connected considerable consists Cromer deposits drained Earl East Dereham Eccles England estuary extended famous fen land Fen Level fifteenth century fishery fishing flint flows formerly geologists Glacial Hall Happisburgh harbour Heath Heigham Hickling Hickling Broad Holkham Horsey Mere houses Hunstanton important inhabitants King King's Lynn kingdom known large tracts limestone Lincolnshire Little Ouse Market marshland meal marsh miles Mundesley neighbourhood Norfolk coast Norfolk Wherry Norman north coast Norwich parishes Peddar's port portion of Norfolk possessing prehistoric rainfall reclaimed rises river road rocks Roman sand sand-banks sand-hills Sandringham sandstones Saxon shales Sheringham ships south-west species St Benet's Abbey Suffolk Thetford Thurne to-day tower town village Wash Waveney Weybourn Winterton Wroxham Wymondham Yare Yarmouth
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Página 1 - all England may be carved out of Norfolk, represented therein, not only to the kind, but degree thereof. Here are fens and heaths, and light and deep, and sand and clay ground, and meadow and pasture, and arable and woody, and (generally) woodless land, so grateful to this shire with the variety thereof.
Página 52 - all of which are to direct the sailors to keep a good offing in case of bad weather, and to prevent their running into Cromer Bay, which the seamen call the devil's throat.
Página 85 - one of the royal cities of England, situate on the bank of a water and arm of the sea, which extended from thence to the main ocean, upon which ships,
Página 2 - degree thereof. Here are fens and heaths, and light and deep, and sand and clay ground, and meadow and pasture, and arable and woody, and (generally) woodless land,
Página 24 - From Thetford to the Fens so barren is the land that one is often reminded of the deserts of Africa, rather than of English scenery
Página 32 - when surrounded by the waters, sought a place of refuge by mounting into trees; but, benumbed by the cold, they were overtaken by the water and fell into it and were drowned.
Página 90 - At the time of the civil war between Charles I and the Parliament,
Página 2 - and pasture, and arable and woody, and (generally) woodless land, so grateful
Página 58 - degrees, like the suffixes ton and ham, it came to have a larger meaning and denoted a village.