Transcribed from the 1844 Matchett, Stevenson, and Matchettedition ,

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.

By W. HEWITT, Surgeon.

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

1844.

p.3DEDICATION.

To the Right Honourable theLords Commissioners of the Admiralty.

My Lords and Gentlemen,

A communication with your Lordships in 1843, led me to inferthat an Essay upon the interesting subject connected with thepresent inquiry, would be received with a degree of attentionaccording to its merits, and the importance of the objectconnected with it.  But should you, in your superior wisdom,perceive sufficient evidence has not been advanced to render itdeserving the consideration requisite at your hands, futureproofs may arise upon the foundation contained in the followingpages.—On the contrary, should it meet with yourapprobation, p.4the high and honourable position you maintain for thebenefit of maritime affairs will, I trust, induce you to exerciseyour influence towards effecting a trial of the plan submitted,for the benefit of the community at large, I and for the honourand credit of your noble establishment.

I am,
My Lords and Gentlemen,
Your very humble and obliged Servant,

THE AUTHOR.

p.5PREFACE.

Many persons may consider it a remarkable circumstance, thatan individual, whose profession requires his leisure time to bedevoted to the acquirement of knowledge for the comfort of man inhis corporeal ailments, should find an opportunity to directconsiderable attention to a subject, so very different incharacter, as the one now submitted to the reader. [5]  The suggestions, however, of anear, respected, and venerable relative, aroused and stimulatedme to make the strictest investigation, and subsequently led tothe submitting a plan or design ...