AN ESSAY
ON THE
ENCROACHMENTS OF THE GERMAN OCEAN,
WITH A
Design to arrest its further depredations, applicable to the
Norfolk and other Coasts, by taking every particular
respecting them into consideration.
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THE Work will be interspersed with elaborate drawings of Cromer,
Hasborough, &c., accompanied with diagrams, showing the full extent and
meaning of the author, who, owing to repeated solicitation to introduce
another Edition, and having obtained valuable and more ample information,
announces his intention to comply, believing that this important subject
may yet become, as it ought to do, a matter for national attention, and
national expense.
The interested therefore are respectfully informed, that if they coincide
in the desire they expressed, and the offer proposed, orders must be sent
as early as possible, direct to the author, North Walsham, Norfolk.
The Work will be published in Royal quarto.
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OPINIONS of the PRESS on the FIRST EDITION.
“The work is another interesting addition to Norfolk literature, and
the plan for the conservation of our Northern shores, is worthy
attention, as coming from a gentleman, who, to some experience at
least, adds the claim of having paid considerable attention to a
subject of no little importance to the Northern and Eastern districts
of the County.”
_Norwich Mercury_.
“The subject of this Essay is indeed of prime importance—First in a
national point of view, as embracing particularly the interest of the
public, and concerning in the closest manner the preservation of all
the property of individuals situated on the contour of the coast of
Norfolk, from the North Westerly point at Wells, to the Haven of
Great Yarmouth.
“The main object of the enquiry is to discover the best plan of
restraining the ravages of the sea, during the periods of
extraordinary high tides; and on this point we entirely agree with
Mr. Hewitt’s general view, and are strongly inclined to believe that
it will answer in most cases where it may be judiciously carried into
effect”
_Norfolk News_.
“The publication of this volume may be considered well timed. It
contains much information respecting the tides and currents of the
ocean—the formation of the Norfolk Coast—the damage done by
irruptions of the sea, &c. We are no engineers, therefore we do not
pretend to pronounce upon the merits of Mr. Hewitt’s plan for the
construction of jetties, breakwaters, &c.; but it appears feasible,
and merits the consideration of those whose property has been, and is
threatened to be injured by the incursions of the ocean. And we
consider the work (which is dedicated to the Lords of the Admiralty,)
to be creditable to the industry of the Author.”
_Norfolk Chronicle_.
“The author is a gentleman, whose profession (a surgeon,) could
hardly be supposed to allow him much time to devote to a subject such
earnest thought and investigation, as the one he has here attacked.
Mr. Hewitt, however, has evidently applied himself to this question
con amore, and the work now before us evinces that he has brought to
its consideration, a mind capable of patient and careful research
into the many and varied causes that bear upon it. Though undertaken
more especially with a view to searching out and propounding a remedy
for the locality of which it immediately treats, a considerable
portion of the work refers to the Encroachments of the Ocean
generally, upon all exposed points of the coast, and there is much in
it that would apply to the Southern, as forcibly as to the Eastern
coast
“Mr. Hewitt describes the plan which he recommends as the best mode
of imposing a check to the Encroachments of the Ocean, and shows the
supposed elevation of the beach from the deposit of sand likely to be
caused by the inventor’s plan.
“The work is written in an earnest, but modest and unpretending
style, and the aim of the author is so good and praiseworthy, that
should it fail to make the impression on head quarters, desired by
its writer, he will, under all circumstances, have the satisfaction
of feeling that he has laboured in a good cause. While other minds
may perhaps entertain different views as to the utility or
practicability of his scheme, they cannot fail to admit Mr. Hewitt
deserves the thanks of his country, for the benevolent motives which
have actuated, and the patient and diligent care which has directed
his efforts in the field in which he has thus become a labourer.”
_Sussex Advertiser_, _and Surrey Gazette_.
“A remarkable ‘Essay’ which has met with the usual attention bestowed
upon Cassandric warnings.”
_Dickens’ Household Words_.