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ment to the fmaller property thall exceed in value tHe allotment to the larcer.”” And in refpeé to proprietors whofe property is under the annual value oF Ke pounds, by allowing them double proportions on a certain part not.to be inclofed; or by fuffering them to have allotments in fimilar proportions, according to their properties, to thofe whofe property was above five pounds,

With the view of benefiting the ttill more poor tenants, or renters of cottages, it has been fuggefted that by the providing of a claufe for the purpofe of allotting a portion of land for the convenience of building a number of folid, convenient, and. airy cottages, to be held in trufi for the parifh, many advantages might have been gained*,

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To be read after Line 6, Page 123.—The white-thorn fhould, on no con- fideration, be /es than four years old when it is planted; if younger, it is. unable to encounter the drought of the firt funmer, An intermixture of holly in white-thorn fences is at once ornamental and ufeful- the young plants fhould be carefully weeded and moulded up every{pring, for the firft three or four years. They fhould alfo be cut down the third or the fourth year, within four inches of: the bank, in order that they may throw out lateral thoots, and thus become thick at the bottom. Too much care can fcarcely be beftowed in cherifhing young fences, in preferving them againft the nibbling of ftock, againft the feverity of drought, and» the double injury which weeds commit, by choking them with their own Juxuriant growth, and by robbing them of their neceflary nourifhment.

To be read after Line 20, Page 145.—It has been lately well obferved, in an able Effay on the Conftruction, Hanging, and Faftening of Gates, that, when fat pended by hinges, a gate isa lever of the fecond kind, in which the weight is placed, between the power and the fulcrum; as it is evident that the hand applied to the head of the gate is the acting power, the gate itfelf the weight to be raifed or moved, and the hinges the fulcrum or centre of motion. When the hooks or pivots upon which a gate is hung are precifely perpendicular to each other, the gate will be at reft wherever it may be placed, and the fame power which ts required to move a. gate thus fufpended through any given arc of the circle, will be exactly fufficient to: bring it back to its former pofition;” a proof of which is feen in a common door to a room with plain hinges.‘* But the fimalleft variation of the hooks from their per- pendicular line, will attach toa gate, fo fufpended, one determinate line of reft; and from any part of the circle which the gate may be made to:deferibe, it muft have a conftant tendency to fall to that line of reft. The line of reft for a gate wall always

* Monthly Magazine, Vol. VII: p. 358. 4