An Essay on the Encroachments of the German Ocean Along the Norfolk Coast / With a Design to Arrest Its Further Depredations

by William Hewitt

[42a] Groins are formed of piles and wooden planks, or of faggots staked down, and they are used either to break the force of the waves, or to retain the beach.

[42b] See Appendix.

[43a] See Appendix.

[43b] Ibid.

[44] This was observed by the Author in June, 1844.

[45a] Taylor’s Geology of East Norfolk, p. 10.

[45b] Ibid.

[45c] See Appendix.

[47] See Appendix.

[48a] Communicated to the Author by J. Brown, Esq., F.G.S.