the autumn ; they afford excellent sport to those who are fond of angling. Boats may be hired at a small expence with proper lines and hooks a few herrings are easily procured for bait; and thus equipped, a party may pass a few hours, cr the day, in the most delightful manner : some cold meat, and a few bottles of porter, ought not to be forgot. The whitings will bite as fast as you can let down your hooks, and in a few hours you may return loaded with fish.
A great deal of plank, iron, and grain are brought here from the country, to be exported coastwise, though the iron branch (which consisted chiefly in cannon from the founderies at Rothersbridge and Ashburnham) has failed considerably within these few years, owing to the great scarcity of wood for heating the furnaces ; for since hop-planting is become so principal a branch of the farmer's system, the woods that are now remaining, are chiefly reserved for hop-poles.
The only imports of any consequence besides fish, are coals, of which the quantity has considerably increased since Hastings has -
