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tain diftance above the furface, feems to be the moft 

 rational mode. 



2. Louth fence. Inftead of a wall, built of lime and 

 ftone, this fpecies of fence has been adopted feveral 

 years ago; firft, on account of its being one-third 

 cheaper built than a wall j fecondly, it can be executed 

 by common labourers ; and thirdly, as it may be 

 planted with thorn quicks when found necefTary. 



It was calculated, that a ftone wall, of eight feet 

 from the furface, would coft 2/. 8/. ^d by the running 

 perch. Upwards of two miles of the Louth fence 

 have been made, and the average did not exceed \6s. 

 by the running perch. In a circuit of between feven 

 and eight miles, which is about the extent of the de- 

 mefne-fence of Rafh, the difference between \6s. and 

 2/. Ss. 3</. amounts to a large fum ; but the applying 

 fo much money among the labourers of the neigh- 

 bourhood, inftead of mafons indifcriminately collected 

 from many parts, was an object of confequence to the 

 labouring poor, which the ever to be regretted late 

 Lord Mountjoy never loft iight of. 



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