17/29 Defoe, _Tour through Great Britain_, 1724 (1769 edit.), pp. 'This shire is the most fatt, frutefull and full of profitable thinges, exceeding (as far as I can finde) anie other shire for the general commodities and the plentie, thowgh Suffolk be more highlie comended by some (wherewith I am not yet acquainted). But this shire seemeth to me to deserve the title of the Englishe Goshen, the fattest of the lande, comparable to Palestina, that flowed with milk and hunnye.'-- Norden, _Description of Essex_ (1594), (Camden Soc.), p. |