A Norfolk Man by Hilaire Belloc

Among the delights of historical study which makes it so curiously / similar to travel, and therefore so fatally attractive to men who cannot / afford it, is the element of discovery and surprise: notably in little / details.

When in travel one goes along a way one has never been before one often / comes upon something odd, which one could not dream was there: for / instance, once I was in a room in a little house in the south and thought / there must be machinery somewhere from the noise I heard, until a man in / the house quietly lifted up a trapdoor in the floor, and there, running / under and through the house a long way below, was a river: the River / Garonne.