MARSHLAND, (Norfolk) is a marshy peninsula, opposite to King's-Lynn, almost surrounded with the Ouse and other navigable
rs. and an arm of the sea. It seems to have been formerly recovered out of the ocean, from whose inundations it could
never be altogether defended; and in Sir Hen. Spelman's time it suffered two general ones, viz. one from the salt-water,
the other from the freshes; by the last of which the inh. suffered 42,000 l. damage. It contains about 30,000 acres, which
turn to more profit by grazing than ploughing. It is about 10 m. in the widest place, and has no less then 111 brick
bridges. The commonage of it bel. to 7 villages that surround it. The air of it is so unhealthy, that an ague is commonly
called the Marshland Bailiff.