An Essay on the Encroachments of the German Ocean Along the Norfolk Coast: With a Design to Arrest Its Further DepredationsHewitt, William
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An Essay on the Encroachments of the German Ocean Along the Norfolk Coast: With a Design to Arrest Its Further Depredations
Hewitt, William
Norfolk (England) -- Description and travel; North Sea; Tides -- England -- Norfolk
{67} This valuable variety of grass would, the author thinks, become
more serviceable, if, on attaining its full growth, known by the ears
containing the seed being ripe, it were mown down. The advantage
derivable would cause the blades to spring up much thicker than they now
do, and the seed being threshed, might be sown in any locality requiring
its presence; and it evidently appears to be the easiest and most certain
method to propagate it.
{70} It is scarcely necessary to observe, until the legitimate beach is
formed, stones, sand, &c., must not be taken away, and afterwards only
with discrimination.—See Appendix. _Eccles._
{71} Examples observable at Eccles, the cliffs opposite the lower
Lighthouse at Hasborough, off the high lands Hasborough, Ostend Point,
Walcot, a point off a remnant of the parish of Keswick, off the
Watch-house, Bacton, Cox’s Point, Mundsley, Trimingham, Cromer, &c., in
some instances scarcely ever any sea-beach materials accumulate, and the
water reaches the cliffs at half-tide, especially upon the springs.
{74} Loudon, in his Encyclopædia of gardening, informs us, the Pinus
Sylvestris, commonly but erroneously termed Scotch fir, can be obtained
much cheaper, and of a better quality, in Scotland than in England. It
appears the soil is more congenial, particularly in some districts, where
the wood equals in texture that grown in America.
{109} In this eBook the errata have been applied.—DP.
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