Synopsis
Purchase of this book includes * trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for *. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: clear white honey, from coal to coal as they gravitate to the bottom. The cupola itself is, I believe, an American invention, but it has been improved on by the firm, by the substitution of a drop-bottom, which pulls out and lets all the scorice fall through, and a water-tap being simultaneously turned on them, the rubbish can be cooled and removed before the workmen leave, the tedious and unpleasant work of raking out being thereby saved. Owing to Messrs. Barnard's being cramped for space, and the buildings having been erected from time to time, the works are inconvenient, and, in my opinion, unnecessarily dirty. Excursions Round Norwich. There are two or three places near Norwich, which, as they do not fall within any of the excursions I have sketched out hereafter, I may note here as being very well worthy of attention. The first is Caister, which stands on the little river Tas, three miles outside the city gates, the best way to it being over the Bishop's Bridge. The ch., which stands inside the Roman station, and is dedicated to the martyr St. Edmund, is uninteresting outside, except that it has some of the red Roman tile worked up in it, and is a curious mixture of E. Eng., Dec., and Perp. The font, however, is very fine Perp., and well worthy of attention. The camp itself is most interesting, the walls enclosing an area of 35 acres, with an inner enclosure of 27 acres, and is the largest in England. The mound, on which the old wall stood, can be perfectly well traced, and fragments ofthe wall itself peep out here and there. At the side nearest Norwich, much of the mound has been recently dug away to show the wall, which is here perfect enough. Immense quantities of pottery, coins (from Nero downwards), and other remains have been found here, and many of them ar...
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