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Suffolk 

Published in 1839, Pigot's Directory states: "There is in this county a great variety of soil; the whole, however, may be conveniently divided into four sorts - clay, sand, loam and fen... The climate of this county has long been noticed as the driest in the kingdom; the frosts, also, are severe, and the north-east winds, which prevail in spring, are generally sharp: but though, like the western extremity of this island, Suffolk is not calculated to favour the weak and consumptive stranger, it is upon the whole extremely healthy...

The agriculture of this county approaches more nearly to perfection than, perhaps, any other in the kingdom: in the lighter lands the Norfolk system is pursued; and in the heavier, beans and wheat, cabbage and other vegetables are grown in rotation. The farming stock is highly valued - the cows being excellent milkers and the horses strong, active and capable of vast exertions...

The manufactures of Suffolk are not extensive or various - light stuffs, buntings, crapes and yarns being the principal under this head, with hempen cloth for home consumption; the combing and spinning of wool likewise prevail to some extent. The sea-ports depend much on the exportation of malt and corn: some are noted for making fine salt, burning lime from fossil shells etc; other maritime towns derive considerable advantage from the mackerel and herring fisheries, and in the Orford river there are considerable oyster beds. The curing of fish employs great numbers of the inhabitants, of both sexes, in several towns on the coast, especially at Lowestoft, upon which branch the prosperity of that town may be considered almost entirely to depend..."

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