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Identifier: earthitsinhabita481recl (find matches)
Title: The earth and its inhabitants ..
Year: 1881 (1880s)
Authors: Reclus, Elisée, 1830-1905 Ravenstein, Ernest George, 1834-1913 Keane, A. H. (Augustus Henry), 1833-1912
Subjects: Geography
Publisher: New York, D. Appleton and company
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^ Institution. Placed in thecentre of a fruitful agricultural district, famous for its cattle and the beauty of itshorses, it is only natural that Norwich should have become a great mart ofagricultural produce ; but it is at the same time a manufacturing town of nomean importance, although in this respect it is now merely the shadow of its Fig. 108.—Norwich.From the Ordnance Map. Scale 1 : 30,663.
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1 Mile. former self. In the sixteenth century about four thousand Flemings, driven fromtheir homes by the Spanish Inquisition, settled in Norwich and introduced thewoollen trade. These were subsequently joined by French Huguenots skilled inmaking brocades and velvets as well as clocks and watches. In Defoes time thecity and its neighbourhood employed 120,000 workmen in its woollen and silkmanufactures. In the present day the staple trade of Norwich is boot and shoe-making. Besides this the manufacture of bombasins, crapes, camlets, and otherfabrics of worsted, mohair, and silk, is carried on, and there are oil-cake factories 218 THE BRITISH ISLES. and inustartl works. The river below the town has been made navigable forvessels drawing 10 feet of water, but Great Yarmouth is virtually its seaport. One of the decayed seats of the linen and woollen industry is Ayhham, 10miles to the north of Norwich, at the head of the navigation of the Bure, a cheerfultown in a well-wooded countr_^, kno

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