Surrey has no particular breed of cattle. It supports about GOo cows for the supply of London with milk, which are chiefly of the short-horned or Holderness breed. Cows of the Staffordshire breed are common and highly esteemed. The cattle on the heights are poor looking, but have a fine bone. They resemble the ordinary long-horned. The horses generally employed arc usually large, heavy, and black. Great numbers or sheep are bred in the central and western districts. The most com mon are the South Downs, Wiltshire and Dorset shire. Great numbers of hogs are fattened at the distilleries and starch manufactories. House lamb suckling is a great object with the farmers. In the Weold, geese are reared in great numbers on the commons. The Dorking fowls, which are large, handsome, and perfectly white, with five claws on each foot, are well known. There is a rabbit warren of about 30 acres near Bansted Downs, where 200 pair are kept. It is surrounded with a brick wall ten feet high, with openings at regular distances, within which are wire gratings or hinges. These give way to the hares when they enter, but prevent their egress. In summer they are fed on clover, rye, Ste. and in winter on hay.
The manufactures of Surrey are numerous and extensive, but the most important belong to Lon don. (See our article LONDON, Vol. XII. p. 208.)
On the banks of the Wandle are large establish ments for bleaching and calico printing. At lIed dington there are large flour mills, skinning mills, calico-printing works and bleaching greens. At Carshalton the same business is carried on, with the addition of a large cotton factory, paper mills, and several snuff and oil mills; and Mitcham and Morton are celebrated for their extensive calico and bleaching establishments. The principal ob jects of manufacture are starch, tobacco, snuff, gunpowder, paper, vinegar, leather, earthenware, wax, and hats.
Among the antiquities in this county are the Ermine Street, a Roman road passing through Clapham, Epsom, Dorking, and Farnham. Stane Street Causeway, a branch of Ermine Street, be gins at Dorking, and may be traced through Ock ley to Sussex. Another military way has been traced through Stretham, Croydon, and Godstone, to Sussex. Vestiges of Roman camps occur at Bottlehill and Waltonhill, on the Thames. The remains of a Roman temple, surrounded with em bankments, occur on Blackheath, in the parish of Oldbury. There appear to have been Roman sta tions at Kingston and at Woodcote, near Croydon, the last of which, Camden and Horsley consider to be the Noniomagus of Ptolemy.
The following was the population of the county in 1821.