the capital city of the county of Saffex, is surrounded with a wall, which has four gates, answering to the four cardinal points; from which run two streets, that cross one another in the middle and form a square, where the market is kept, and where there is a fine stone piazza built by bishop Read. The space between the west and south gates is taken up with the cathedral church and the bishop's palace. It has five parish-churches; and is seated on the little river Lavant, which washes it on all sides except the north. This city would have been in a much more flourishing condition if it had been built by the sea-side; however, the inhabitants have endeavoured to supply this defect in some measure by cutting a canal from the city down into the bay. The principal manufactures of the town are malt and needles. The market of Chichester is noted for fish, wheat, barley, malt, and oats: the finest lobsters in England are bred in the Lavant; and it is observable, that this river, unlike most others, is very low in winter, but in summer often overflows its banks. Chichester is a city and a county of itself; the government being vested in a mayor, recorder, aldermen, common-council without limitation, and four justices of the peace chosen out of the aldermen. It is a bishop's see, and sends two members to parliament. W. Long. 50°. N. Lat. 50°.