Through East Anglia in a Motor CarVincent, James Edmund
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Through East Anglia in a Motor Car
Vincent, James Edmund
Norfolk (England) -- Description and travel; Suffolk (England) -- Description and travel
By the road over which the mad Earl of Orford used to career with his
extraordinary team, over which Horace Walpole doubtless drove when he left
his beloved London and "Strawberry"--for so he called it "all short"--to
fight an election at Lynn, we also drove in a chariot which, to the
eighteenth-century Norfolkian, would have seemed just as strange as the
phaeton and four stags would appear to us in the twentieth. The motor-car,
however, attracts less attention in north-western Norfolk, perhaps, than in
any other part of the kingdom; for at Sandringham are many motor-cars of
many makes, and some there are at the Cottage also. This part of the
country learned before others did the elementary truth that there is no
essential connection between speed and peril, and it was good for
automobolism that an object-lesson should have been given in this respect
by the magnificent cars, Daimlers for the most part, of him whom the law
regards as incapable of offence, because he is the spring and source of the
law itself. Of this country of heather, bracken, fir and oak, of glorious
gorse and of glowing rhododendrons, of the numerous acclivities and
declivities, sufficient to give variety to the scene without trying the
powers of any competent car, of its air, an incomparably sweet mixture of
the breaths of the sea and of the moorland, little will be said at this
moment, for the simple reason that, in the next and final chapter, I hope
to be able to give an impression of its beauties at many times of the year,
from the point of view of a frequent eye-witness.
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