272 Inscription of anew Fence, &c. 



coating of paint they are preserved from the effects of the 

 weather. 



The strength attained, by the principles on which the ma- 

 terials are manufactured and the erection of the fence is 

 conducted, cannot be justly conceived but by a person who 

 has witnessed the effect of a considerable force impressed, 

 or weight lodged on a single wire of a fence erected. The 

 tempered elasticity of the tort string allows it to bend, and 

 on the removal of the pressing force, the wire vigorously 

 recoils, vibrating till it reassumes a perfectly straight line 5 

 which shows that a violent shock cannot warp it. 



With regard to the effect of these transparent boundaries 

 in opening a view, a pleasure-ground intersected or sur- 

 rounded with them must be surveyed before an estimate 

 can be formed of the small distance at which they vanish 

 from the eye and leave the prospect free; — this distance may 

 be fixed by experience at seventy yards. 



To advert a moment to the utility of the new principle, 

 (by which the invisible fence can be rendered strong and du- 

 rable in any degree demanded,) — from the theory of Mr. 

 Repton, previous to their discovery, it may be collected, that 

 a secure substitute for the heavy and unsightly fences, often 

 found indispensable near the basement windows of a man- 

 sion, was a desideratum ; and his practice, since the satisfac- 

 tory trials made in many counties of the new transparent 

 fence, sanctions its adoption. In his large and elegant pub- 

 lication on Landscape Gardening, that able improver of rural 

 scenery states many objections to the Ha Ha; and regrets 

 the necessity for interposing substantial boundaries to a 

 grazed circle near the house, which counteracts a designer 

 in pursuing the incontestably judicious maxim, that the 

 fences in a park cannot be too few. Under a skilful direc- 

 tor, the new principle, in the multifold applications of which 

 it is capable, is a powerful instrument in creating artificial 

 beauties round a country residence, or in opening a prospect 

 to adorned nature, where a pleasing fore- ground and en- 

 chanting distance have been hitherto shut out. (See the 

 Plate.) 



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