150 AGRICULTURAL SURVEY 



I have purpofely brought the whole into money, 

 with a view of (hewing with the greater eafe, what 

 number of perfons this extra, or fuperabundant 

 produce is equal to the fupport of. And if we 

 apportion ten pounds for the fuflenance of a 

 human being, one with another, which muft be 

 acknowledged to be a liberal allowance, where 

 luxuries are excluded, it will appear, that this 

 county fends out a foreign fupply for upwards of 

 127000 perfons. And if we take the 56,000 em- 

 ployed in the home manufactures and navigation, 

 from the whole population of the county, it will 

 fhew, that the county furniihes more than a fufli- 

 ciency for double the number of perfons employ- 

 ed in agriculture and its appendant trades. 



Every impartial man, who confiders this vaft 

 produce, muft be ftruck with aflonifhment ; and 

 as Norfolk is far from being naturally a good 

 country, it muft, undoubtedly, be to art and in- 

 duftry, that this great fource of treafure is to be 

 afcribed. It is evidently fo great, that no part of 

 England, not even the famous vales of Taunton, 

 White Horfe, or Evefham, are fuppofed to exceed 

 it in proportion of corn. 



Government muft certainly draw from this 

 county a much greater portion of revenue, than 

 from any other; for as nearly one-third part of 

 all the arable land is fown with barley every year, 



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