Note 252 — Chapter VIII

Both these propositions are naturally to be interpreted as containing an indirect denial of the existence of their subjects. “Crowland is situated in such moorish rotten ground in the Fens, that scarce a horse, much less a cart, can come to it” (Bohn’s Handbook of Proverbs, p. 211). It would appear, however, that this proverb has now lost its force, inasmuch as “since the draining, in summer time, carts may go thither.”