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mer is covered with fhort fine grafs, fit only for the 
walk of a few fheep. Now the method of im- 
provement I propofe is as follows: 
Firft; To dig a broad ditch, and raifea high bank 
all round it, by way of fencing it off from the ex- 
tenfive moors, which are contiguous to it and fur- 
round it on every fide. The next thing I intended 
was, to meafure out from the inner brink of the 
ditch, three (or perhaps four would be ftill better) 
perch or pole on every fide, to form a margin which 
fhould be thoroughly ploughed, pulverized, and 
made ready for planting in the fpring. The ex- 
terior line fhould be fown with white-thorn berries 
in a double row about a foot afunder, row from 
row. At four feet diftance from the fame, a fhallow 
furrow fhould be drawn, and fo on at that diftance 
from one furrow to another the whole breadth of 
the margin. As we advance from the outfide, every 
row of plants will be more and more protected ; 
therefore, the hardieft trees fhould be planted outer- 
moft, which may be in the order following: firft, 
beech, horn-beam, or fycamore; the next may be 
afh ; the third row, chefnut; the fourth, oak; the fifth, 
cherry; the fixth, pines, firs, or larch; then chefnut 
again, or a repetition of any of the former, as the 
planter may judge proper. This would ferve as a 
nurfery, and provide plants fufficient to plant all 
the interior fences. As the moor is about 400 
acres, and almoft {quare, we will fuppofe it to be 
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