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by others. By theſe roads, which are of a ſuſficient width,

free acceſs is had to every field, there being only two fields between each road. The ground 1s naturally dry, except 1]' a very few ſmall ſpots, that are cut through by open drains which may afterwards be covered. Large belts and clumps of trees are judiciouſly interſperſed both for ſhelter and or- nament.

The fences are moſtly of white thorn with double ditches, between which a mound or dike of earth 1s raiſed. The ditch next the hedge 1s commonly 5 feet wide at the top„. and 3 feet deep, the other 15 3 feet wide; the dike or bank between them 1s 4 or 5 feet broad at the baſe, and as much in height above the ſurface of the ground. The following draught of a ſection of this fence will convey a proper idea of its conſtrudtion.

The quicks are placed horizontally over two layers of turf taken up in opening the ditch, and are laid down with the graſs ſide undermoſt. Care is taken to fil up with earth the deep furrows between the old ridges, ſo that the line of the hedge may be on alevel. A layer of turf, with the graffy fide undermoſt, is carefully placed immediately above the roots of the thorns; over that the earth from the ditches 15 thrown up into the form of a Nloping ſided mound; a mar- gin, a foot broad, is left below the thorns, and another 5 the ſame breadth on the other ſide of the dike. The hedge

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