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Rh Norwich to Hardly Cross, is eighteen miles and a half; from thence, to the Waveney, is six miles and a half; from thence, to the Bure at Yarmouth, is three miles and three quarters; and, to the sea, a further distance of three miles and a quarter.

The River Waveney has its source near Finningham Hall, a few miles north of the town of Mendlesham, in Suffolk; it takes an easterly course, and afterwards a northerly, by the town of Eye; thence, by Harlaston to Bungay, where it becomes navigable. From this place its course is east, by Barsham Hall and the town of Beccles, to within three miles of Lowestoft, whence it takes a northerly course by St. Olave's Bridge, to Burgh Flatt, where it falls into the Yare. From Bungay to Beccles Bridge, the distance is seven miles and a half; from thence, to St. Olave's Bridge, is twelve miles and a half; and to the place where it joins the Yare, five miles and a quarter. Two miles above Beccles there is a navigable cut, from the river to Geldestone Staith, of three quarters of a mile in length, and level.

To any one who will take a cursory glance at the position of these rivers on the accompanying map of inland navigation, the great advantages which must accrue to above one half of the county of Norfolk, is so strikingly manifest, as to render it quite unnecessary that we should further expatiate on them.

It may not be amiss here to state, that the royal assent was given to an act on the 28th of May, 1827, for making a navigable communication for ships, between the city of Norwich and the sea at Lowestoft, which follows the course of a considerable portion of the Yare, with a part of the Waveney, but which is not to injure the navigation of those rivers.

Further particulars of the Norwich and Lowestoft Navigation, as it is to be called, will be found in the proper place.

BURY, LOUGHOR AND LLIEDI RIVERS.
53 George III. Cap. 183, Royal Assent 2nd July, 1813.

THE River Bury is a very wide estuary, situate between a promontory of Glamorganshire, terminating at Worms Head, and the