. A regional geography of the world, with diagrams and entirely new maps . nd the Humber, is protected by huge sand-banks which lie about four miles off the coast. Thesehave been built by the currents from the waste of thecoasts. Between them and the coast arc the protectedwaters known as Yarmouth Roads. Other coast townsof importance are Cromer^ Fclixstoive, and , at the entrance to the Stour estuary, is amodern packet station with important continental con-nections, especially with Hook of Holland, Hamburgand Antwerp. Norwich and Ipswich, the two largest towns of EastAnjilia,
. A regional geography of the world, with diagrams and entirely new maps . nd the Humber, is protected by huge sand-banks which lie about four miles off the coast. Thesehave been built by the currents from the waste of thecoasts. Between them and the coast arc the protectedwaters known as Yarmouth Roads. Other coast townsof importance are Cromer^ Fclixstoive, and , at the entrance to the Stour estuary, is amodern packet station with important continental con-nections, especially with Hook of Holland, Hamburgand Antwerp. Norwich and Ipswich, the two largest towns of EastAnjilia, are both associated with river estuaries and asea trade of past centuries. Noruncli retains some ofits old importance in the manufacture of wool and THE SCARl^LANDS AND PLAINS 131 silk. It also 111 ami fact u res boots and shoes, agriculturalimplements, starch and mustard. It is a cathedralcity. Ips7vicli, at the head of tlie Orwell estuary, isa great wheat market and manufactures agriculturalimplements. Colchester and Chehnsford are market I over 300 feetScale of Miles. THE MAPPA LTD., ;U|l Fig. 38.—The Basin of the Wash and East Anglia. centres, the former also being noted for the oyster-beds of the river Colne upon whose banks it of these towns, like others in Essex, are built onglacial sands or gravels where water collects above theunderlying sheets of impervious clay. Thus a drier andhealthier site and a supply of water are assured. 132 THE BRITISH ISLES HI.—THE BASIN OF THE THAMES. Physical Features. The Thames, the chief river In the British Isles, risesin the Cotswolds, and flows eastwards to its greatestuary. The basin may be divided into two portions :the first, or upper part, from the source to the narrowgapwhere the river passes between the Chiltern Hillsand the Marlborough Downs ; and the second, or lowerpart, betweenthat gap and the sea (see Fig. 39). Thefirst forms part of the^trough ^ between the ooliticand chalk scarplands, an
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