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in part by the size of the foundation stones. Should there be a 

 good number of large bowlders, from four to five feet in diameter, 

 it will be best to have the wall about that width. Between the 

 bowlders let a row of good stones be laid for each face ; now fill 

 up the middle, and level it off entirely across the wall. Then if 

 a large flat stone, or a number of them, can be obtained, lay them 

 on the long way across the wall, and chock them well, so that a 

 man may step on them without rocking or moving them. If there 

 is a number of ill-shapen, rough-looking bowlders, let them be 

 laid on such places as the tops of the large flat stones, and chock 

 them well. Let the workmen be particular to break joints well, 

 i. e., let a stone be laid directly over the joints of the two below 

 it ; let long stones from each face of the wall extend inward as 

 far as possible, and if a few can be obtained which will extend 

 from face to face, they will render the wall doubly strong. When 

 there are more large bowlders than can be laid in the foundation 

 course, if two or three men cannot lift them two or three feet 

 high on the wall, place a strong bench by the side of the wall, 

 and lay a couple of plank, with one end on the bench and the 

 other on the ground, and roll the large stones up this inclined 

 plane with a cant-hook, and lay them carefully on the wall. In 

 this way one man may handle stones with ease, and place them 

 on the wall three or four feet from the ground, which three or 

 four men could not lift directly to that place. "When there is 

 stone enough to build a wall, we will say three feet wide on the 

 bottom, and two feet or two and a half on the top, and three feet 

 high, if there should be enough bowlders about two feet in diam 

 eter to form a single row the entire length of the fence, they 

 should be left till the wall is finished, from three to four feet high, 

 as the case may be, and then these bowlders should be laid care 

 fully on the top of the wall, close together, and chocked up well all 

 around. Such bowlders will be more efficient in building a fence 

 when placed in such a part of the wall, than they would be if they 

 were placed near the bottom ; but they should be assorted, and 

 those of a given size should be placed together. If we would 

 make a fence five feet high, for example, it may be made three 



