58 STATISTICAL SURVEY 



that of no great length, make this one of the moft 

 charming counties in Ireland : fuppofe the trees and 

 quicks were given as an inducement, the fum would 

 cot be great on the whole ; and as leafes in general 

 fall gradually, the di(burfements would be gradual, and 

 come at the fitted time imaginable, along with an in- 

 creafing income. Although there is great induftry 

 exerted by the farmers, in manuring and improving, 

 yet the want of good inclofures gives a general ap- 

 pearance of flovenlinefs to their labours, which in other 

 refpefts they do not deferve ; and it is often to be re- 

 _ gretted, that a field of potatoes, drilled in a moft com- 

 plete manner, fhould be furrounded by a ditch, not ca- 

 pable of affording it the protection neceflary to it, and 

 which it merits fo well. If the time, which is annually 

 loft in repairing old fences, was laid out with .judgment, 

 in making a certain portion of new ones every year, in 

 a very fhort time it would preclude the neceflity of the 

 former, befides all the other benefits, that would accrue. 

 The fences moftly in ufe amongft thofe occupiers, 

 who have fuperior ideas of their utility and beauty, are 

 trenches and banks, varying in fize and dimenfions, 

 according to the fituation of the grounds, or the fancy 

 of the maker ; the trenches are made often fo large as 

 fix feet wide by five in depth, but five by four is more 

 ufual, the bank, of confequence, proportionate to the 

 trench; the latter dimenfions form a fufficient defence 

 ip moft cafes, and where the quicks are carefully wed 



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