Norfolk is celebrated for the diversity and the high cultivation of its soil; for the abundance and excellence of its agricultural productions . . . and for its numerous antiquities and historical associations. ... It is divided from Suffolk by the Waveney and the Little Ouse; from Cambridgeshire chiefly by the Great Ouse, Welney and Nene, and from Lincolnshire by the Wash. Thus surrounded by marine and river boundaries, Norfolk is in fact an island.