Anglo Saxon student), and then Wymondham, the line reaches Norwich, at one time (during the reign of Charles II.) considered next in importance to London. It is the see of a Bishop, and possesses a Cathedral

of the greatest beauty and magnitude, which is visited by strangers from all parts of England. The Castle, too, of a period prior to the Norman Conquest, has been the scene of many important national events, several of which have been rendered scarcely less well known by the fictionist than by the historian. Norwich is built on an eminence, and presents a magnificent panorama to the railway traveller; the Cathedral, with its elevated spire, on the one hand; the City, interspersed with trees, rising tier above tier, in front; the whole crowned with the massive bulk of the Castle; while the spreading suburbs, with their ele

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gant villas, blend with the neighbouring woods, and complete the picturesque beauty of the coup d'oeil, in which

"The gleamy vales,

And sunny lawns, and streams in hazy light
Glitter, when that peculiar stillness reigns

Which seems like Nature's Sabbath, when the leaf
Shed from the aerial spray, scarce quivering drops
Through the lulled atmosphere."

The great mass of the population are employed in the manufacture of muslins, crapes, &c. &c., of which trade this city is the principal seat. The total population is about 70,000, being the most numerous of any place in the East of England, forming the metropolis of a very extensive district. The ecclesiologist meets here an immense fund of interest in the thirty-five churches, most of them of great antiquity, which are found within the city; while few persons can visit it without discovering something to gratify them, whether antiquarian, historical, legendary, scientific, or otherwise.

Leaving Norwich behind us, we pass, for a short distance, through some delightful suburban scenery, of which the artist has availed himself. This, however, is abruptly terminated by the commencement of an extensive flat, continuing nearly all the remainder of the distance to Lowestoft, which is presently reached, passing the noble edifice of S. M. Peto, Esq., M.P., at Somerleyton, and also the village of Mutford Bridge, situate on the bank of Lake Lothing; after leaving which, a few minutes brings the traveller into the neat station of Lowestoft a town which, from the peculiarity of its marine position, and the beauty of its sylvan scenery, early attracted the attention of the imaginative, and has lately added innumerable modern claims to the antique eulogium of the poet

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