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dable fences, againft man and beaft, are made of this 

 article. They are now only beginning ; but, from the 

 great quantity of fir and other trees that muft necefla- 

 rily be cut away, this fpecies of fence no doubt will be 

 generally adopted, efpecially in backward and remote 

 parts of the demefne, and in the other improvements. 



I call it a chfvaux-de-frife fence ; it is made fimply 

 thus. A trench, about two feet deep, and three feet 

 wide, is dug out, in which the trees are placed up- 

 right, generally about two feet apart, fo that when the 

 branches are cut, at about the diftance of eighteen 

 inches from the ftem, they will crofs each other, form- 

 ing alternately both acute and obtufe angles, and alfo 

 projecting the horn-work at front and rcre* The lower 

 tier of korns are always let down below the furface, 

 the better to ftrengthen the fence ; and, when the mould 

 is put in, the whole is well rammed, in performing of 

 which much pains muft be taken, left any of the horns 

 {hould be broken, which would fpoil all. 



The under (ketch may in fome meafure a/lift the 

 reader, in forming an idea of this fingular fpecies of 

 fence. 



The 



