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or beaft, and is certainly lefs fubjcct to decay than a 

 wall built of lime and ftone. 



Befides its cheapnefc and Simplicity, there is another 

 object, fufficient to recommend it. The beauties of 

 plantations and dreffed grounds are, in a great mea- 

 fnre, loft to the fpedtator from the outfide of a de- 

 mefne, by a continued dreary wall, which never fails 

 to tire the imagination, and offend the eye ; the Louth 

 fence may be occafionally kept low, fo as in fome mea- 

 fure to partake of a funk fence ; and, if quicking the 

 face be adopted, which I by no means infift upon, the 

 quicks are eafily kept down to the level of the wall. 



3. Sunk fence. Situated as the demefne is, this kind 

 of fence was obliged to be adopted, and that upon an 

 extenfive fcale. A public road of great refort accom- 

 panies the demefne for upwards of two miles, which, 

 being common to feveral of the approaches, and being 

 fortunately placed fo as to give no offence, or in any 

 part of it to appear a nuifance, was of courfe con- 

 tinued, and widened from the original breadth to that 

 of fixty feet; or at leaft it is now fo far advanced, that 

 little remains to complete it. 



As the demefne lies on either fides of this general 

 approach, and the views to the grounds, the river, 

 and the plantations, with many other interefting ob- 

 jects, are fo numerous and exquifite, that it was judged 

 unpardonable to conceal any object, that could be 

 fhewn to advantage, funk fences, therefore, were 

 0^.2 adoptedj 



