Genre:

Letter

Subjects:

Health, Mapping, Navigation, Military Technology

    The correspondent confesses to being one of 'the rich, the idle, and the gay' who migrate to the coast in the summer months 'in order to enjoy the fancied advantages of sea-bathing' (318). Gives an account of Cromer and environs. Reports that parts of the now submerged 'Ancient Cromer' or 'Shipden' can still be observed. Continues: 'it is certain [...] that those who have made experiments at soundings in this spot, have had every reason to conclude that the bottom of the sea, for the circumference of half a mile or more, was one perfect stratum of stone or brick [...]. It is these scattered ruins of the old town, in the sea, which are said to make the coast of Cromer so extremely dangerous for shipping'. (319)