Show how saud sand hills grow A sand hill is riot made so much as planted wherever a patch of marr marrum urn grass takes root there the sand blown irom from the great bauk bank gathers round it As the sand spreads tile the grass grows through it until the hard bard dry blades form the nucleus of thousands of tons of hills near hookham holkham bay there lay not 40 years ugo ago a wet lake inside the high sand band there the gunners used to hido for curlew digging holes and filling them with marr marrum urn grass to make dry and comfortable this grass took root the band gathered round and where tile the lake lay is now a tumultuous mass of rounded hillocks billoc ks rising 20 feet above high water level built by the marr marrum urn grass from the surplus drift ings of the mighty sand nand london spectator |