56 STATISTICAL SURVEY 



CHAPTER VI. 



I N C L O S'l Jft G. 



SECTION n 

 Fences. 



THE inclofures (I wifh I could fay fences) of th* 

 county of Down are a general difgrace to it; with 

 ibme exceptions, they confift of a ditch and bank, from 

 two to four feet wide by the fame dimenfions in depth, 

 without quicks of ariy kind, or fometimes with a few 

 plants of furze ftuck into the face of the bank, or fome 

 of the feed of the fame fown on the top : this laft mode, 

 if generally adopted, would at lead be a good tempo- 

 rary fence, and afford melter to cattle, and promote the 

 growth of grafs, which, from want of fuch encourage- 

 ment, is very late in rifing through the greateft part of 

 this country , but furze, when fown on the top of the 

 bank, unlefs cut with care and attention, grows thin at 

 the bottom, and dies in a few years. Another kind of 

 inclofure, very much in ufe, efpecially in the ftony and 



mountainous 



