SUFFOLK produces scarcely any minerals of value. Chalk and Shell-Marl from the crag formation are dug from manures. This county forms one of the best cultivated districts in the southern part of Great Britain. The greater part of the land is under the plough ; there being now scarcely such a thing to be seen as a common field. There is no part of England where the implements of husbandry are more perfect than in Suffolk, or where new implements are tried with more readiness and with less prejudice ; nowhere is so great a variety of farm-machines used for saving labour.
Suffolk is far from being a manufacturing :ounty ; yet it has a few busy and flourishing ;owns. At Bungay a considerable trade is tarried on in grain and other articles of provi don by means of the Waveney, which is ;able up to Bungay for small barges. At rpsivicli the manufactures of the town consist :May in the spinning of woollen yarn, ship milding, sail-making, &c. Its commerce
crises from the exportation of corn, malt, and other produce of the surrounding country. there is, however, one notable establishment, bat of Messrs. Ransomes and May, where machinery and agricultural implements are nanufactured on a large scale. Lowestoft has ately risen into importance on account of the :xcellent harbour formed there, in connection vith the Norfolk railway. Mail steamers have ust commenced (April 1851) to run from Lowestoft to Denmark, under circumstances which promise to be very beneficial to the town. From Stowmarket a considerable quan tity of corn and malt are sent in river-craft down to Ipswich to be shipped there : timber and deals, coals and slate, are brought up from Ipswich for the supply of the neighbourhood.