eep and flowing, now dried up, and teeming with
cultivated trees and shrubs, and ornamental flowers, and sculptured
figures,--we say adieu to the past history, written on the flints and
mortar of the ramparts, that have braved the "battle and the breeze," for
near a thousand years,--and leave the soaring heights, whence we may look
down upon the little city world below as on a stage, whose scenes and
slips are all laid bare beneath us in their skeleton machinery--dark
lanes and lumbering alleys crowded round, and shut in out of sight, by
facial frontings of glass, and brick, and plaster. Churches and
heaped-up churchyards, bursting their walls with the accumulated
corruption of centuries of generations,--distant villages and village
spires,--and spots made sacred by the blood of hero-martyrs,--the winding
river, once the stormy sea-passage for Norsemen and Saxon fleets--and
take one final leave of the giant mound,--whose origin, whether first
reared in Celtic ages far remote, a temple to the Sun, or a portion of
the far-famed Icknild Way, that crosses our island like a belt from
south-west to north-east, whether the architecture of Danes, Saxons, or
Normans, is alike full of history and of poetry, and the well garnered
store-house of many a rich and precious truth,--a monument of the past,
ever present to our eye, as a landmark by which to measure the progress
of our nation in religion, freedom, and social happiness.

CHAPTER IV.
THE MARKET-PLACE.

_Market-place_.--_Present aspect_.--_Visit to its stalls_.--_Norfolk
Marketwomen_.--_Christmas Market_.--_Early History_.--_Extracts from old
records_.--_Domestic scene of 13th century_.--_Early
Crafts_.--_Guilds_.--_Medley of Historical Facts_.--_Extract from Diary
of Dr. Edward Browne_.--_The City in Charles the Second's
reign_.--_Duke's Palace
Gardens_.--_Manufactures_.--_Wool_.--_Worsted_.--_Printing_.--_Caxton_.--
_Specimens of Ancient Newspapers_.--_Blomefield_.

The old city, so rich in antiquarian remains, can boast but slow progress
in modern architectural developments; nor may it vie with many a younger
town in its contrivances for the comfort and conveniences of those most
useful members of society--the market-folks. No Grainger has arisen, to
rear a monument to his own fame, and of his city's prosperity, in the
form of a shelter for this important class of the town and country
populace. May be, the picturesque beauty of the Flemish scene, with its
c