STRIPES, CLUMPS, &C, ' 24-9 



. SECTION II. 



The Direction, Position, Breadth and Extent of the, 

 Belts, Stripes, Kc. according to local Circumstances > 

 considered. 



THE DIRECTION AND POSITION of Stripes 



or belts may frequently be regulated by arbi- 

 trary circumstances ; as, the limits or boun- 

 dary of an estate, the position of public roads, 

 the course of a river, ravines or chasms, 

 abrupt precipices, &c. 



When this is not the case, and where the 

 choice is unrestrained, the leading points for 

 consideration are : 



1st. By what position the stripe or clump 

 would have the best effect in opposing the 

 wind ; being placed in its eye, by observa- 

 tion of from what point, and with what ef- 

 fect, it generally blows. 



Qdly. By what position and direction it 

 would most effectually answer the two-fold 

 purpose of sheltering, and conveniently divid- 

 ing the lands in question. 



Sdly. In what position a belting might be 



