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should be used. The chief art in building 

 the Galloway-dyke consists in matching the 

 stones at sight, so as they may bed well, and 

 hold together ; for, the prices generally al- 

 lowed on this species of building will not ad- 

 mit of the tool being used. In some parts 

 I, have observed a very handsome and durable 

 method of erecting these walls; viz. building 

 one half, or at least two feet, with flat slaty 

 stones, and finishing with large blocks at 

 top. 



* It is observable, that a wall thus constructed, four 

 feet and a half high, is equal to one six feet high with a 

 plain, or a sod coping. The sickle-coping seems to inti- 

 midate sheep and cattle more than any other; and, I am 

 persuaded, would be a^ .most effectual gne for deer-park. 

 walls. 



