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with a Aone foundation ; the fods are laid edge-ways, 

 and built about four feet high, and fometimes topped 

 with furze. Such perifhable walls require to be re- 

 newed every fecond or third year, but this is not cen- 

 tered expenfive, as the old fods mixed with dung, 

 and fometimes lime, anfwer extremely well for ma- 

 nure for potatoes, and fometimes as a top-drefling for 

 grafs-land. 



Bogs and fwampy fituations are generally divided 

 from arable land by large drains, fo as to divide the 

 fummer pafture, and confine the cattle to the bogs at 

 that feafon ; but this mode is chiefly confined to fertile 

 bogs, as fpungy quaking bogs are feldom acceffible, 

 except in very dry feafons. 



The mode of fencing by common ditches is in ge- 

 neral very bad ; they are fo ill built, that they frequently 

 tumble down the firfl winter after being built. The di- 

 menfions are always too fmall, five feet wide, and 

 three feet deep, for the gripe is the general fize; of 

 courfe, the bank muft be very poor. For want of an 

 off-fet,* the thorn quicks, if planted at all, are left quite 

 t>are after the firft winter, and too frequently little 



pains 



*An off-fet, or fcarceraent, (the latter is the country phrafe) 

 is a fpace, which fliould be left between the verge of the gripe, 

 and the face of the bank, from fix to twelve inches, accord- 

 ing to the nature of the foil, or the petition of the ditch. 



