We had to steer our way among a vast number of tanned nets spread out to dry.  Here and there fishermen and their wives and daughters were employed in mending those which had received damage.  There must have been acres upon acres of these nets.  We soon reached the column, which we found was erected by the inhabitants of the county to the memory of Lord Nelson, who was a Norfolk man.  At the top of each side of the pedestal were the names of the hero's chief victories.  At the summit is a ball, on which stands the figure of Britannia holding a trident and a laurel wreath.  The keeper invited us to enter; and we ascended by a flight of two hundred and seventeen steps to a gallery at the top of the column, the total height being one hundred and forty-four feet.  From the platform we got a good bird's-eye view of the town below us, and the country as far as Norwich, and a wide extent of ocean.