From St. Edmund's Bury I Returned By Stowmarket And Needham To Ipswich, That I Might Keep As Near The Coast As Was Proper To My Designed Circuit Or Journey; And From Ipswich, To Visit The Sea Again, I Went To Woodbridge, And From Thence To Orford, On The Sea Side.

Woodbridge has nothing remarkable, but that it is a considerable market for butter and corn to be exported to

London; for now begins that part which is ordinarily called High Suffolk, which, being a rich soil, is for a long tract of ground wholly employed in dairies, and they again famous for the best butter, and perhaps the worst cheese, in England. The butter is barrelled, or often pickled up in small casks, and sold, not in London only, but I have known a firkin of Suffolk butter sent to the West Indies, and brought back to England again, and has been perfectly good and sweet, as at first.

The port for the shipping off their Suffolk butter is chiefly Woodbridge, which for that reason is full of corn factors and butter factors, some of whom are very considerable merchants.

From hence, turning down to the shore, we see Orfordness, a noted point of land for the guide of the colliers and coasters, and a good shelter for them to ride under when a strong north-east wind blows and makes a foul shore on the coast.

South of the Ness is Orford Haven, being the mouth of two little rivers meeting together.

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