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brink of the bank, which fhould be done in manner 
following: a fufficient number of ftrong withy 
ftakes are to be prepared, by cutting them from 
three and a half to four feet long, and from one 
and a halfto three inches diameter; being cut fharp 
at the lower end, they are to be thruft or driven 
into the ground about 1¢ or 16 inches, or till they 
are firm, at the diftance of about 14 or 15 inches 
ene from another in a line; then an equal number 
of fhorter fets muft be prepared; thefe may be 15 
or 16 inches long, and from three quarters of an 
inch to an inch and half diameter, and muft be 
thruft into the ground about ro inches deep, leav- 
ing about fix out, to be planted one in the middle 
of each two of the former, then they will ftand in 
alternate fucceffion. The tall ftrong ftakes muft 
be faftened together by a whale or kind of chain, 
fuch as the hedgers weave on the tops of the dead 
hedges; they are made of three hurdle rods of 
the fame wood. If {takes and fets are cut any 
time in January or February, and planted in open 
weather in a few days after they are cut, very few 
of them will fail of growing, and in two years time 
lived, and very durable in flakes, hurdles, poles, &c. more fo than any 
wood that is proper to be ufed for that purpofe. If cut at fix or feven 
years growth, it is very ufeful for chair-makers, rakes, forks, prong- 
flaves, and hoops; and laftly, it is excellent for fuel and charcoal. A 
hedge thus planted, would be very ufeful for other purpofes, as well as 
jor fencing the ground, 
the 
