Picture 19 - On the Thurne.

ON THE THURNE. This river possesses a group of Broads each with distinctive characteristics only learned and recognised by those who lovingly explore their waters, and linger on them. Some are very picturesque, and alive with teal and mallard; while others are weird, wild wastes of rustling, swaying reeds, than which nothing more lonely and desolate can be imagined, yet life is abundant enough. The drainage mills on the Thurne, constructed as far as motive power is concerned precisely in the same way as the ordinary windmill, pump water instead of grinding corn and crushing wheat. The Thurne is a fairly wide stream with deep water.