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m NORFOLK: 195 



260 



MARKETS. 



NORFOLK, taken colledively as a county^ 

 is fingularly well-fituated for markets : the 

 Norwich manufaftdry is produdive of a re- 

 gular internal confumption ; while Yarmouth^ 

 Lynn, the fmaller ports, Smithfield and St. 

 Ives, takeoff the furplus produce. 



Smithfield is the grand market for cattle 

 and fheep, and the sea-ports for barlev. 

 Wheat is principally bought up by the mil- 

 lers, and the furplus of what is confumed in the 

 country fent to the london market in flour. 

 Some wheat in grain is alio fent to Bear-Key. 



With refpeft to veal, pork, lamb, and fome- 

 times mutton, a lingular pradlice prevails in 

 Norfolk; moft efpecially at the Norwich 

 market, which is fupplied with the above 

 articles entirely by the farmers ; who, for fif- 

 teen or twenty miles round, are moft q( them 

 capable of drcffing a calf, a lamb, or a fheep ; 

 ^hich, with poultry made ready for the fpir, 

 O 2 are 



