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About ten miles north-east of Eastthorpe lies the town of Fenenerally; and as we are already familiar with

Eastthorpe, a particular description of Fenmarket is unnecessary

There is, however, one marked difference between them Eastthorpe,

it will be remembered, is on the border between the low uplands and

the Fens, and has one side open to soft, swelling hills

Fenmarket is entirely in the Fens, and all the roads that lead out of it are

alike level, nant

ditches The river, also, here is broader and slower; more reluctant

than it is even at Eastthorpe to hasten its journey to the inevitable

sea During the greater part of the year the visitor to Fen, and at tirey, wintry sky, almost unendurable; but nevertheless, for days and

weeks it has a charland,

provided only that behind the eye which looks there is so to

which a landscape of that peculiar character answers There is, for

example, the wide, dome-like expanse of the sky, there is the

distance, there is the freedoeometrical march of the constellations from the

extreme eastern horizon across the meridian and down to the west has

a solemn majesty, which is only partially discernible when their