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CAMBRIDGESHIRE, an eastern county of England, bounded N. by
Lincolnshire, E. by Norfolk and Suffolk, S. by Essex and Hertfordshire,
and W. by Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire and Northamptonshire. The area
is 858.9 sq. m. The greater part of the county falls within the district
of the Fens, and is flat, elevated only a few feet above sea-level, and
intersected with innumerable drainage channels. The physical
characteristics of this district, and the history of its reclamation
from a marshy and in great part uninhabitable condition, fall for
consideration under the heading FENS. Except in the south of the county
the scenery of the flat land is hardly ever varied by rising ground or
wood, and owes the attraction it possesses rather to individuality than
to beauty. At the south-eastern and southern boundaries, and to the west
of Cambridge, bordering the valley of the Cam on the north, the land
rises in gentle undulations; but for the rest, such elevations as the
Gog Magog Hills, S.E. of Cambridge, and the gentle hillock on which the
city of Ely stands, are isolated and conspicuous from afar. The
principal rivers are the Ouse and its tributaries in the south and
centre, and the Nene in the north; the greater part of the waters of
both these rivers within Cambridgeshire flow in artificial channels, of
which those for the Ouse, two great parallel cuts between Earith and
Denver Sluice, in Norfolk, called the Bedford Rivers, form the most
remarkable feature in the drainage of the county. The old main channel
of the Ouse, from Ely downward to Denver (below which are tidal waters),
is filled chiefly by the waters of the Cam or Granta, which joins the
Ouse 3 m. above Ely, the Lark (which with its feeder, the Kennett, forms
the boundary of the county with Suffolk for a considerable distance) and
the Little Ouse, forming part of the boundary with Norfolk.

_Geology_.--By its geological features, Cambridgeshire is divisible into
three well-marked regions; in the south and south-east are the low
uplands formed by the Chalk; north of this, but best developed in the
south-west, is a clay and greensand area; all the remaining por