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tages, which he left behind him near that 

 exemplary spot, Guildford in Surrey ! Both 

 blots are, however, easily accounted for. 



17. The fences are of post and rail. This 

 arose, in the first place, from the abundance of 

 timber that men knew not how to dispose of. 

 It is now become an affair of great expense 

 in the populous parts of the country ; and, that 

 it might, with great advantage and perfect ease, 

 be got rid of, I shall clearly show in another 

 part of my work. 



18. The dwellings and gardens, and little out 

 houses of labourers, which form so striking a 

 feature of beauty in England, and especially in 

 Kent, Sussex, Surrey, and Hampshire, and 

 which constitute a sort of fairy-land, when com 

 pared with those of the labourers in France, 

 are what I, for my part, most feel the want of 

 seeing upon Long Island. Instead of the neat 

 and warm little cottage, the yard, cow-stable, 

 pig-sty, hen-house, all in miniature, and the 

 garden, nicely laid out and the paths bordered 

 with flowers, while the cottage floor is crowned 

 with a garland of roses or honey-suckle ; in 

 stead of these, we here see the labourer content 

 with a shell of boards, while all around him is 

 as barren as the sea-beach ; though the natural 

 earth would send melons, the finest in the world, 

 creeping round his door, and though there is 

 no English shrub, or flower, which will not 



