It was about an English mile from Zutphen, in the midst of a wide, low, somewhat Fenny plain, which, in winter, became so completely a lake, that peasants were not unfrequently drowned in attempting to pass from the city to the village.
"History of the United Netherlands, 1586-89, Vol. II. Complete"
John Lothrop Motley Last Updated: February 7, 2009
Finsbury was so called from the Fenny district in which it lay.
"Chapters in the History of the Insane in the British Isles"
Daniel Hack Tuke
The elevation of the surface of the land is caused by the overwhelming tides and south-west hurricanes in May and October: these extend thirty miles north and south of Chittagong, and carry the waters of the Megna and Fenny back over the land, in a series of tremendous waves, that cover islands of many hundred acres, and roll three miles on to the main land.
"Himalayan Journals V2."
J. D. Hooker