CONTENTS. SECTION I. SITUATION of the town of Cromer.-The old church. -The present church a beautiful specimen of architecture in the time of Henry, the Fourth. -The beauty of its proportions injured by the manner in which it has been repaired.—Singular accident.-View from the tower.-Anecdote of Robert Bacon.-Free-School.-Inns.-The fishery the chief support of the lower class of inhabitants. The migration of herrings.-The fishery a great source of picturesque amusement. -Boat upset.-Cromer fair.-Mercantile trade. -Cromer an eligible situation for retirement.Description of the bathing machines, cliffs, and beach.-Sea-shore a constant amusement to the artist. Picturesque effects of the storm and calm compared.-Moonlight.-Light-house, by whom erected.-Overstrand.-Cromer Hall.- Poetical fragment. Page 1 SECTION SECTION II. Walk to Runton.-Cromer seen to advantage in the return from Runton.-The battery. 37 1 SECTION III. Excursion to Holt.-Upper road to be preferred.Description of the country between Cromer and Holt.-Churches or villages seen through a valley a very common species of landscape.- Fine distance a circumstance of great beauty.-Heath ground terminated by distance.-Particular effect given to a distance.-The influence which a distant prospect, under particular circumstances, has upon the mind.-Holt.-Note from Pratt's Gleanings. Return from Holt by the lower road.Beeston Priory.-Remark of Shenstone's upon Ruinated Structures.-Felbrigg beacon. Page 41 SECTION IV. Felbrigg grounds described.-Oak, its uses in the picturesque, improved by age and decay.-Shenstone's ideas of trees in general, particularly the oak. The parish-church.-Felbrigg house, pictures, and library. The parsonage.-Beckham old church, its loneliness.-Such scenes calculated to excite reflection. 55 SECTION New church at Thorp-Market described.-Stained or painted glass in windows, its effect.-Large Oak. Village of Thorp. -South Repps. - Gunton Hall, the seat of the Right Honourable Lord Suffield. Offices very fine.- Parish church in Ride from Cromer to Mundsley.-Syderstrand Hill.- Trimmingham beacon.-Mundsley.-Its beach. -View from it particularly assisted by the state of the weather.-Effects of partial lights, called, by Mons. Du Piles, "Accidents in Painting."- Bacton.-Broom-holm priory.-Happisburg or Hasborough.-Views from the light-houses.- Blickling, the seat of the Honourable Asheton Harboard.-Description of the house, pictures, &c.-The park and mausoleum.-Parish church. Sherringham Upper, description of the grounds be- longing to Cooke Flower, Esq.-Shepherd's cot- tage, rural situation of it.Thatch considered as the most picturesque covering to a cottage.- Connection of objects necessary to produce a pleasing effect.-Weybourn.-Ruins.-Cliff's end. -Views from Weybourn to Lower Sherringham. |