lady-bird in Suffolk, has yet to be sought.

D.S.


Iron Manufactures of Sussex.

Sir,--I have made two extracts from a once popular, but now forgotten
work, illustrative of the iron manufacture which, within the last
hundred years, had its main seat in this county, which I think may be
interesting to many of your readers who may have seen the review of Mr.
Lower's _Essay on the Ironworks of Sussex_ in the recent numbers of the
_Athenæum_ and _Gentleman's Magazine_. The anecdote at the close is
curious, as confirming the statements of Macaulay; the roads in Sussex
in the 18th century being much in the condition of the roads in England
generally in the 17th. "Sowsexe," according to the old proverb, has
always been "full of dirt and mier."

"From hence (Eastbourne) it was that, turning north, and
traversing the deep, dirty, but rich part of these two counties
(Kent and Sussex), I had the curiosity to see the great
foundries, or ironworks, which are in this county (Sussex), and
where they are carried on at such a prodigious expense of wood,
that even in a county almost all overrun with timber, they begin
to complain of their consuming it for those furnaces and leaving
the next age to want timber for building their navies. I must
own, however, that I found that complaint perfectly groundless,
the three counties of _Kent_, _Sussex_, and _Hampshire_ (all
which lye contiguous to one another), being one inexhaustible
storehouse of timber, never to be destroyed, but by a general