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CHAPTER VII. 



FENCES OF THE PAEK AND PLEASUEE-GEOUNDS. 



General Eemarks. — Boundary Fence. — Internal Fences. — Fence 

 of the Deer Park. — Pleasure-Ground Fences. — Malleable-iron 

 Fences. — Sunk Fences. — Stone WaUs. — Hedges. 



Both in its original signification and actual usage the 

 term Park denotes an enclosed space. The park, there- 

 fore, is always encircled by a boundary or ring fence of 

 sufficient height to afibrd protection from without, to 

 retain in their proper places " the beasts of chase," or 

 the cattle that may be kept within it, and to ensure that 

 moderate seclusion which is an essential requisite to a 

 country residence in the estimation both of its inmates 

 and of those strangers whom the liberality of the pro- 

 prietor permits to visit and enjoy its scenery. Besides 

 this bounding enclosm'e, however, internal or divisional 

 fences are necessary. A park of many hundred acres, 

 and including a multiplicity of objects, invariably re- 

 quires to be subdivided into lesser portions for the 

 convenience of grazing, and for other reasons, such as 

 the separation of certain of the wooded surfaces from 

 the pasture-grounds, and the due regulation of the 

 secondary roads^ and even sometimes of the main ap- 



