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pains are ever taken afterwards to afford them any 

 relief. About towns however, we fometimes meet 

 with good hedges, which are better attended to than 

 throughout the county at large : this is owing to the 

 narrow fcale townfpeople are generally concerned in, 

 and the neceifity they are under of fecuring their fmall 

 concerns, on account of the high rents they ufually 

 pay. Though about towns they never attend to the 

 leaving of a fcarcement, they notwithftanding, by pa- 

 tience and perfeverance, get up the hedge through 

 time; if the ditch fhould flip or give way, which in- 

 deed is almoft always the cafe, they patch up from the 

 bottom of the gripe, with fods, ftones, &c. to meet 

 the quick. 



Hence it is plain, that for feveral years there muft 

 be perpetual trouble and expenfe, whereas a reafon- 

 able fcarcement would have faved both. 



When I come to treat of Lord Mountjoy's im- 

 provements at large, the article, fences^ (hall be fully 

 treated of, according to the different modes, which 

 were found neceflfary to be adopted in thofe extenfive 

 concerns. 



Mode of hedge-rows, and keeping hedges. 



Hedge-rows are rarely met with in this county, 

 nd the few, which occur, are but flovenly managed. 

 In mod cafes they are let to run at random, without 



taking 



