Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from An Essay on the Encroachments of the German Ocean Along the Norfolk Coast, With a Design to Arrest Its Further Depredations: Dedicated to the Right Honourable the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty
The circumstance attending this catastrophe caused in little minds derision and contempt, from the failure of the experiment. But a hum ble individual, whose ideas were more enlarged, contended upwards of three hundred pounds worth of good had been effected; and the spot on that part of the coast is recognized to this day as Hewitt's Bank.
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