I46 AGRICULTURAL SURVEY 



The return from the Norwich manufactory, I 

 mall not include in my aggregate, as there is a 

 great importation of coarie wool, to fupport it, 

 from Lincolnshire and other parts: nor fhall I fet 

 any value upon the whale or mackerel fifheries, 

 as they are very precarious ; but as the herring 

 fifhery is a permanent, though alio a variable 

 branch of provincial profit, and is wholly fed and 

 fupported by the county, I think it fair to include 

 it. 



In fhort, manufactures are to be confidered as 

 an object deferving a feparatc inveftigation. But 

 they are, undoubtedly, more deferving of encou- 

 ragement in a produ&ive, than a flerile country; 

 efpecially where the induftry of the inhabitants is 

 fingularly meritorious, as is the cafe at Norwich, 

 where new objects of manufacture have recent- 

 ly been introduced, fince the woollen has de- 

 clined; but (lill it would be better if the manufac- 

 tory, which has been fo long familiar to the city, 

 could be encouraged, fo as to regain its former 

 fplendour and extent, which, it is fuppofed, might 

 be the cafe, if, through the affiftance of Govern- 

 ment, a free communication could be opened with 

 China, where, if 1 am rightly informed, the Nor- 

 wich goods are in a confiderable degree of cre- 

 dit (b). 



I (hall begin my recapitulation with the corn, 

 which is to be confidered as the yearly average 



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