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THIS book maintains the high reputation of the series to which it belongs. Mr. Rawnsley has throughout supposed the tourist to be travelling by motor, and has accordingly said very little about footpaths. Lincoinshire, he says, teems with splendid churches, and that is the first impression received after looking at the admirable illustrations which Mr. Griggs has provided. But attention is by no means confined to ecclesiastical architecture, for the book abounds in anecdotes, gossip, and quaint information. We read that Sir John Franklin, the famous arctic navigator, and Major James Franklin, who made the first military survey of India, were born at Spilsby in this county. On the road from Spalding to King's Lynn the author tells us he passed a field with an unfamiliar crop of stiff purplish plants which showed where the cultivation of Isatis tinctoria, the woad plant, which added so much to the attractiveness of our earliest British ancestors, was still kept going. Or, again, at Tothhy a plaguestone is to he found, and we are given a bright account of how sufferers from the plague in the seventeenth century were fed without spreading infection. The book will appeal not only to Lincoinshire people, hut also to all who love the English countryside.
Highways and Byways in Lincolnshire.
By W. F. Rawnsley. With illustrations by F. L. Griggs. Pp. xx + 519. (London: Macmillan and Co., Ltd., 1914.) Price 5s. net.
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Highways and Byways in Lincolnshire . Nature 94, 226 (1914). https://doi.org/10.1038/094226a0
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