A Guide to Cromer and Its Neighbourhood — John Shaqi
A Guide to Cromer and Its NeighbourhoodAnonymous
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A Guide to Cromer and Its Neighbourhood
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Cromer (England) -- Guidebooks
guinea and a half to three and a half: entire houses from four to six
guineas a week: those of the latter price, of which there are not more
than four or five, make up ten beds, and are therefore capable of
accommodating a large family.
The inhabitants, almost universally speaking, are extremely civil and
well-behaved, respectable in themselves, and respectful towards others;
simple in their manners, and free from that spirit of extortion which is
but too commonly the fault of those who have only a short season to
enable them to meet many exigences, and who have only a partial interest
in those they serve.
The walks, drives, &c., round Cromer are exceedingly beautiful, affording
alike to the geologist, botanist, and mineralogist, abundant materials
for the gratification of their respective tastes. Many valuable organic
and fossil remains are to be found in different parts of the coast, a
circumstance to which the active researches of the late Mr. C. S. Earle
served materially to draw the attention of scientific persons. Professor
Buckland and the learned Mr. Lyell have both honoured Cromer by visiting
it.
Wild flowers are to be met with here in great beauty and luxuriance, some
of them sufficiently rare to induce a long and health-giving walk in
search of them. The sea-weeds, or _algæ_, are those which are generally
found on our coasts, consisting of the great strap-wort, (_Laminaria_;)
Bladder-wort, (_Fucus vesiculocus_;) Serrated Bladder-wort, (_Fucus
serratus_;) the beautiful crimson _Plocamium coccineum_, the _Ulva
latissina_, &c.
All these, when cast on the beach, are carefully collected in heaps, and
serve as manure to the lands.
Jet and amber are found here in the winter. Jasper of all kinds,
cornelian, aqui marine, and agates of every description, some of which
are extremely beautiful, may be picked up on the beach. Many of the
common pebbles, also, are remarkably handsome, and take a fine polish.
The youthful student of mineralogy may also add to his collection
specimens of micaceous schist, trapstone, porphyry, basalt, &c. &c.
Shells, either fossil or recent, do not abound here, except in the upper
chalk, which forms the substratum of the beach, and in isolated patches
of the overlying crag, where a few rare fossil shells are found: recent
shells, indeed, are scarcely ever to be met with. The common
Perriwinkle, (_Turbo littoreus_;) is, however, plentiful on the rocks at
low water.
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