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at a distance apart of about 2 meters, with each pair occupying one of 
‘the angles of a ‘square, so that the surface covered is divided up into 
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blocks, much like the surface of a chess-board. Each set of posts is 
pierced through by two sets of holes, the first at one-half meter and the 
