AGRICULTURAL SURVEY 



Section n. 



SITUATIOjY-CONTENTS-DIVISIONS 

 AND POPULATION. 



l\TORFOLK is a Maritime County, bounded 

 by the German Ocean on the north and 

 eaft ; by Suffolk, fouth ; and by Cambridgefhire 

 and Lincoln (hire, weft. — Its greateft length, due 

 eaft and weft, is fifty-nine miles, and its greateft 

 breadth, from north to fouth, thirty-eight [a). — At 

 the ends it is not fo broad j but it may be confi- 

 dered, when fquared, as containing, as nearly as 

 can be ascertained from the maps hitherto published, 

 about 1,710 fquare miles, and 1,094,400 ftatute 

 acres. It is divided into thirty-three hundreds, 

 one city, by much the largeft in England, fave 

 London and Briftol — Four fea port towns — Twen- 

 ty-five other market-towns, and feven hundred and 

 fifty-fix parifhes. 



It is extremely difficult to ftate, with any degree 

 of accuracy, what are the different proportions of 

 cultivated and uncultivated land, as this could 



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