APPENDIX. ti 



To divide the whole of the drefled grounds of the 

 demefne, will require near one thoufand running 

 perches of funk fence, at iis. a perch. What has 

 been completed coft about that fum. The general 

 dimenfions are; height of wall, fix feet and a half; 

 extent of excavation, from ten to twelve feet. 



Here it is a very pleafing circumftance, that in all 

 this great fcene of drefTed grounds, when completed, 

 and divided by funk fences, not a fingle bridge, or 

 other contrivance, to lead from one divifion to another, 

 will be found neceflary, fo as to crofs the fence. Each 

 extremity of every funk fence has fallen, or is intended 

 to fall, in with feme plantation ; fo that the communi- 

 cation, from one divifion to another, is carved out 

 through the plantation, in a curvilinear manner, fo as to 

 conceal the gate, which is always placed at the moil 

 prominent point of the curve. 



a, The gate, made in the mofl fimple manner, of a 

 few a(h rungs, not much ftronger conftrufted than a 

 fheep-hurdle, but made fo wide, as to admit of a load 



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