“The work is another interesting addition to Norfolk literature, and the plan for the conservation of our Northern shores, is worthy attention, as coming from a gentleman, who, to some experience at least, adds the claim of having paid considerable attention to a subject of no little importance to the Northern and Eastern districts of the County.” _Norwich Mercury_. “The subject of this Essay is indeed of prime importance—First in a national point of view, as embracing particularly the interest of the public, and concerning in the closest manner the preservation of all the property of individuals situated on the contour of the coast of Norfolk, from the North Westerly point at Wells, to the Haven of Great Yarmouth. “The main object of the enquiry is to discover the best plan of restraining the ravages of the sea, during the periods of extraordinary high tides; and on this point we entirely agree with Mr. Hewitt’s general view, and are strongly inclined to believe that it will answer in most cases where it may be judiciously carried into effect” _Norfolk News_. “The publication of this volume may be considered well timed. It contains much information respecting the tides and currents of the ocean—the formation of the Norfolk Coast—the damage done by irruptions of the sea, &c. We are no engineers, therefore we do not pretend to pronounce upon the merits of Mr. Hewitt’s plan for the construction of jetties, breakwaters, &c.; but it appears feasible, and merits the consideration of those whose property has been, and is threatened to be injured by the incursions of the ocean. And we consider the work (which is dedicated to the Lords of the Admiralty,) to be creditable to the industry of the Author.” _Norfolk Chronicle_. “The author is a gentleman, whose profession (a surgeon,) could hardly be supposed to allow him much time to devote to a subject such earnest thought and investigation, as the one he has here attacked. Mr. Hewitt, however, has evidently applied himself to this question con amore, and the work now before us evinces that he has brought to its consideration, a mind capable of patient and careful research into the many and varied causes that bear upon it. Though undertaken more especially with a view to searching out and propounding a remedy for the locality of which it immediately treats, a considerable portion of the work refers to the Encroachments of the Ocean generally, upon all exposed points of the coast, and there is much in it that would apply to the Southern, as forcibly as to the Eastern coast