. A description of England and Wales, containing a particular account of each county, with its antiquities, curiosities, situation, figure, extent, climate, rivers, lakes, mineral waters, soils, fossils, caverns, plants and minerals, agriculture, civil and ecclesiastical divisions, cities, towns, palaces, seats, corporations, markets, fairs, manufactures, trade, sieges, battles, and the lives of the illustrious men each county has produced : embellished with two hundred and forty copper plates, of palaces, castles, cathedrals, the ruins of Roman and Saxon buildings, and of abbeys, monasteries,
. A description of England and Wales, containing a particular account of each county, with its antiquities, curiosities, situation, figure, extent, climate, rivers, lakes, mineral waters, soils, fossils, caverns, plants and minerals, agriculture, civil and ecclesiastical divisions, cities, towns, palaces, seats, corporations, markets, fairs, manufactures, trade, sieges, battles, and the lives of the illustrious men each county has produced : embellished with two hundred and forty copper plates, of palaces, castles, cathedrals, the ruins of Roman and Saxon buildings, and of abbeys, monasteries, and other religious houses, besides a variety of cuts of urns, inscriptions, and other antiquities .. . l\ J T?/,VA. f SUFFOLK. 273 hard upon the (hore. We are told, that in thereign of king Henry the Firft, a kind of fifh wascaught in the Tea, near Orfordnefs, by the fiftier-mens nets, which, in Tnape, refembled a humanbody, but was rough and hairy. It is faid tohave been brought alive on fhore, but foon afterefcaped to fea again, and was never more heard of. It is remarkable, that along the coaft from Or-fordnefs to Yarmouth, an incredible number offwallows, aflemble in a body about the end offummer, where they wait for the firft northerlywind to tranfport themfelves out of Britain, pro-bably to fome warmer climate. They are fome-times wind-bound for feveral days ; but it nofooner blows fair then they all take wing together,and never appear till the following fpring, whenthey arrive here in vaft bodies, and from henceiftnbute themfelves all over Britain. Three miles to theweftward of Orford is But-XEY, a village which had a fmall priory of Blackcanons of the order of St, Auguftine, founded byRanul
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