196 M A R K E T S. 0.6. 



arc carried weekly by themfclves, their wives, 

 their daughters, or their fcrvants, to Norwich 

 market ; which, whether for plenty or neat- 

 nefs, is, I believe, beyond all comparifon, the 

 firft in the kinfrdom. 



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Thefe articles arc brought to market in pan- 

 niers — provincially, " peds*' — either on horfe- 

 back, or in market- carts (a convcniency which 

 few farmers are not pofTcffed of) and placed in 

 rows in the *' ped-markct;'* a fpacious triangu- 

 lar area in the center of the city ; the market- 

 women fitting in a row on one fide of the pcds, 

 \\''hile the other fide is left free for their 

 cu Homers. 



Whether viewing the ncatnefs of the market- 

 women themfelves, the delicacy of their wares, 

 or the clevernefs which, through habit, many 

 of them are miftreffes of in the difpofal of 

 them, the Saturday's market of Norwich ex- 

 hibits a very agreeable fight. 



It 13 not necelTary to add to this account of 

 the ped-markct, that the bufinefs of a butcher 

 in Norwich is confined, in a great mcafure, tO" 

 beef and a little mutton. Indeed the trade of 

 a butcher is not, in any part of the county, a 

 o-ood one; the principal farmers butchering 



their 



