The East Coast of England from the Thames to the Tweed; Descriptive of Natural Scenery, Historical, Arch]ological, and Legendary
by MacKenzie Edward Charles Walcott (9781150386503)

General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1861 Original Publisher: E. Stanford Subjects: England Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: 33 SUFFOLK. Sttffolk is noted for its small red and brindled cows, and " punches " (cart-horses famous for their " long draw;") a polecat is here called a " lobster," and a weazel a " mouse- hunt;" and on the downs the shepherds, it is said, may be heard playing on the rude pipe which has been in use here for centuries. The country, according to old Fuller, is famous for its " stiles " and " fair maids," for its agues called " the bailey of Marshland," and its . punning maxim, rather uncomplimentary to one of its chief towns -- " you are in the highway to Needham," i. e. to poverty. Landgitaed Fort. -- The Danes in 880 lost 16 ships in an action with King Alfred off this point, and sailed past it up the river in 1014. The fort is placed on a commanding spot at the mouth of the Orwell, the banks of which formed Gainsborough's favourite subjects of study. In his pictures are found its stately woods, purple in the valleys, and the uplands rising varied with noble mansions. From this place to Dunwich the coast is bleak, dreary, treeless; lonely headlands and a barren shore are only broken by some low cliffs where the Deben meets the sea near Bawdsey. Hollesley Bay affords tolerable anchorage, as the Whiting sand shelters it from S. E. gales. The base of the sea cliff at Felixstow consists of dark clay, containing fossils of London Clay. At the old hall here King Edward III. resided in 1338, and in 1667, 3000 Dutch troops made a landing here, but were dispersed by the fire of a galliot. From Landguard Fort a range of sand-hills, extending over two miles ...

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