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would embrace them. Rogers. —In a few days, or hours, 
if I am to leave this carcase to be burled in the earth, and to 
find myself either for ever happy in the favour of God, or 
eternally separated from all light and peace; can any words 
sufficiently express the littleness of every thing else ? Law. 
SUFFIELD, a parish of England, in Norfolk; 3j miles 
west-by-north of north Walsham. 
SUFFIELD, a hamlet of England, North Riding of York¬ 
shire; 4\ miles west-north-west of Scarborough. 
SUFFIELD, a post township of the United States* in 
Hartford county, Connecticut. It is a pleasant and consider¬ 
able town, and contains four houses of public worship, two 
for Congregationalists, and two for Baptists. Here is a 
mineral spring considerably resorted to. Population 2680; 
11 miles south of Springfield. Lat. 41. 59. N. long. 72. 
40. W. 
SU'FFISANCE, s. [Fr.] Excess; plenty. Obsolete. 
There him rests in riotous suffsance 
Of all gladfulness arid kingly joyance. Spenser. 
To SUFFLA'MINATE, v. a. [sufflamino , Lat.] To 
stop; to stay ; to impede.—God could any where suffamin- 
ate and subvert the beginnings of wicked designs. Barrow. 
To SUFFLA'TE, v. a. [suffo, Lat.] To blow up. Not 
used. 
SUFFLA'TION, 5. [ suffatio, Lat.] The act of blowing 
up. Unused. 
To SU'FFOCATE, v. a. [suffoquer , Fr., suffoco, Lat.] 
To choak by exclusion or interception of air. 
Let gallows gape for dog, let man go free. 
And let not hemp his windpipe suffocate. Shalcspeare. 
A swelling discontent is apt to suffocate and strangle with¬ 
out passage. Collier. 
SU'FFOCATE, part. adj. Choaked. 
This chaos, when degree is suffocate , 
Follows the choaking. Shalcspeare, 
SUFFOCATION, s. [suffocation , Fr.] The act of 
choaking; the state of being; choaked.—Diseases of stop¬ 
pings and suffocations are dangerous. Bacon. 
SU'FFOCATIVE, adj. Having the power to choak.— 
From rain, after great frosts in the winter, glandulous tumours 
and suffocative catarrhs proceed. Arbuthnot. 
SUFFOLK, a maritime county of England, bounded on 
the north by the county of Norfolk, on the west by Cam¬ 
bridge, on the south by Essex, and on the east by the Ger¬ 
man ocean. The river Stour divides it from Essex, the Little 
Ouse and Waveney from Norfolk, and the Great Ouse and 
one of its branches from Cambridge. It lies within 0. 19. 
and 1. 45- east long., and 51.56. and 52. 36. north lat. Its 
figure somewhat resembles a crescent, with the concavity to¬ 
wards the north, and the two horns projecting, the one along 
the coast towards Yarmouth, and the other along the Ouse 
on the west; but an oblong of almost unindented form may 
be measured on its surface from east to west, 47 miles long, 
and 30 broad. Its area has been variously stated. Mr. 
Young, in his agricultural survey, estimates it at 1269 square 
miles, or upwards of 800,000 acres. According to Arrow- 
smith’s map, it contains about 1450 square miles; and some 
measurements make it as high as 1520 or 1560. It contains 
from 150 to 160 inhabitants to each mile. It has two grand 
divisions, viz., the liberty of Bury St. Edmund’s, and what 
is termed the body of the county, for each of which there is 
a separate grand jury. It is subdivided into 21 hundreds 
and 75 parishes, which contain 7 boroughs, viz., Aldbo- 
rough, Dunwich, Eye, Ipswich, Orford, Sudbury, and Bury 
St. Bury’s, and 21 other market towns, viz., Beccles, Bil- 
deston, Brandon, Bolesdale, Bungay, Clare, Debenham, 
Framlingham, Hadleigh, Haverhill, Ixworth, Lavenham, 
Lowestotf, Mendlesham, Mildenhall, Needham, Neyland, 
Saxmundham, Southwold, Stow Market, and Woodbridge. 
It sends 16 members to parliament, two for the county, and 
two for each of the boroughs. 
Suffolk is, in general, a level county, without any con¬ 
siderable eminences. The highest land in the county is in 
the west, where the great chalk ridge of this part of England 
extends from Haverhill, by Bury, to Thetford, in Norfolk. 
The rivers of the county, besides the Stour, the Waveney, 
and the Ouse, on the borders, are none of them of any great 
magnitude, except the Orwell, which rises above Stow Mar¬ 
ket, and, under the name of Gipping, descends by Needham 
to Ipswich, where it becomes navigable, widens into a kind 
of estuary, and then joins the Stour at Harwich. The other 
rivers are the Deben, the Aid, and the Blyth, along the coast, 
and the Lark on the west. The climate of Suffolk is reckoned 
the driest in the kingdom. In winter the frosts are severe, 
and the north-east winds in the spring sharp and prevalent. 
The soil of this county is various, but very distinctly marked. 
1 st. A strong loam or a clay marl bottom predominates 
through the centre and greatest part of the county, extending 
from Haverhill to Beccles on the one hand, and from near 
Ipswich to beyond Ixworth on the other. 2d. On the east 
of this, and between it and the coast, extends northwards of 
the river Orwell, a district of sandy soil, and southwards a 
much smaller one of rich loam. 3d. To the west again 
occurs another considerable district of sand, which extends 
to the north-west corner of the county, where a fourth track 
of fen land is included between the Great and Little Ouse. 
The strong loam in the middle of the county is of a clayey 
nature, and highly productive in all the objects of husban¬ 
dry, but varies in different places, more particularly along 
the banks of the rivers and streams, where it becomes a rich 
friable loam of superior quality. The sandy district along 
the coast varies from pure sand to loamy sand and sandy 
loam. It rests on a substratum of sand chalk or a shell 
marl, termed here crag, which is found in great masses in 
various parts of the county, particularly near Woodbridge, 
and is much used as a manure. This is one of the best culti¬ 
vated districts in England, and abounds with wealthy far¬ 
mers. Besides its arable land, it contains heaths, which 
afford extensive sheep walks, and marshes which feed num¬ 
bers of cattle. The sea shore is composed of long cliffs, 
which are continually falling dowm by the action of the 
waves, which have almost washed away several towns, once 
considerable. The rich loam district extends with a small 
breadth across the Orwell, along the coast to the Deben ; and 
here is a friable putrid vegetable mould, inclining to clay, 
and of extraordinary fertility. The rest of the district is more 
sandy. The sandy district on the west is of a much poorer 
quality than along the coast. The country is less cultivated, 
and abounds largely in warrens and sheep-walks. The soil 
of the fens is composed, from one to six feet under the sur¬ 
face, of common peat bog. Part of the land is under water, 
but a good deal has been drained. Suffolk is almost solely a 
farming county; and agriculture is practised to a great ex¬ 
tent, with great skill, and after the most approved systems. 
The largest estate in the county is supposed not to exceed 
9000/. a-year; and of the smaller estates, which are very 
numerous, many are occupied by the proprietors themselves, 
by whom they are farmed to great advantage. The size of 
farms is in general large. The farm houses, though much 
improved of late years, are still too often built of lath and 
plaster. Many of the cottages have undergone improve¬ 
ment. Mr. Young has made the follow’ing estimate of 
the extent of the different kinds of land, and of the rental of 
the county:— 
Acres. *€• 
30,000 fens, at 4 s . 6,000 
46,667 rich loam, at 185 . 42,000 
156,667 sand, at 125. . 93,999 
113.333 sand, at 65 . 33,999 
453.333 strong loam, at I 65 . 362,666 
800,000 £538,664 
This estimate was made in 1796, since which period the 
value of the several kinds of land has improved, at an aver¬ 
age, from 20 to 30 per cent. 
The raising of crops is the principal object of the Suffolk 
husbandry, although the management of the dairy is also 
much attended to, as well as the rearing of sheep. The 
crops 
