36. NORFOLK. 34I 



Much depends upon fituation ; but more, per- 

 haps, upon judgemcut : and ftill more, per- 

 haps, upon an ample and regular fupply of the 

 means of purchafe. — It is allowed that the af- 

 fluent fortunes, which were formerly made by 

 fome few Norfolk farmers, were chiefly ac- 

 quired through a fuperior ik\\\ in the purchafe 

 of ftock ; fcconded by a full fupply of money ; 

 bv which means they were aKvays able to time 

 their purchafe to the beft advantage. But in 

 men of inferior judgement, and who have 

 not money at their command to purchafe when 

 the price of flock is low, it is undoubtedly 

 prudent to rear the whole, or a principal part, 

 of their own ftock ; for, in doing this, they 

 travel a beaten track, and tread on fure ground, 

 'The purchafe of homebreds is chiefly at the 

 fairs ;— or at the breeders houfes ; or on the 

 ^' caftle hill" at Norwich, where there is a 

 weekly market ;^-fometimes pretty full of 

 different forts of livp ftock, 



The purchafe of Scots is, in this Diftrift, 

 chiefly at the fair of St. Faith's, a village near 

 Norwich -, to which the Scotch drovers bring 

 annuallygreatnumbers.— rSecMiN. 27. and 134. 



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