THE GERMAN OCEAN ALONG THE NORFOLK COAST***


Transcribed from the 1844 Matchett, Stevenson, and Matchett edition by
David Price, email ccx074@pglaf.org

                   [Picture: Public domain book cover]

 [Picture: Eccles Church, the present state of the Beach at Happisburgh,
       Norfolk.  C. Graf. Lith. to Her Majesty.  D. Hodgson, delt.]





                                 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.

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                          By W. HEWITT, SURGEON.

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                                 NORWICH:
                         PRINTED FOR THE AUTHOR,
           BY MATCHETT, STEVENSON, AND MATCHETT, MARKET-PLACE.
       SOLD ALSO BY EDWARDS AND HUGHES, 12, AVE-MARIA-LANE, LONDON.

                                  1844.




DEDICATION.


   _To the Right Honourable the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty_.

MY LORDS AND GENTLEMEN,

A communication with your Lordships in 1843, led me to infer that an
Essay upon the interesting subject connected with the present inquiry,
would be received with a degree of attention according to its merits, and
the importance of the object connected with it.  But should you, in your
superior wisdom, perceive sufficient evidence has not been advanced to
render it deserving