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Then a strip, say, four and a half feet wide, is to be, in like 

 manner, marked off on one side of this ; and another, four 

 and three-quarters wide, marked off on the other side. 



From these two latter strips the sward, to the depth of, 

 say, three inches, is to be pared off, and laid away on each 

 side, to be used in the way we shall presently mention. 

 Then the earth under the pared ground is to be dug out, 

 in the sloping direction exhibited below, and laid up on the 

 strip first mentioned, so as to form a bank eighteen inches 

 high from the surface of the earth. Then the sward, 

 pared off as just mentioned, is to be laid with the grass-side 

 upwards, on each side of the bank, from the bottoms of the 

 ditches to the top, which completes the bank. 



We will now exhibit an end view of the bank as thus 

 made, and covered with the sward, and of the slopes of the 

 two ditches, which we imagine will afford an adequate idea 

 of the construction of the whole, 



A B The furface of the earth. 

 C D The ditch on each side of the bank. 

 E The bank. 



F The sward laid on one side of the bank, taken from 

 the surface of the ditch C, which is four feet and 

 three-fourths wide. This sward laps, at the top of the 

 bank, over that on the other side. 



G The sward laid on the other sidet taken from the 

 surface of the ditch D, which is four and a half feet 

 wide. 



But, in order to make this bank what we would call a 

 sufficient fence, it will be necessary to make an addition 

 to it, by driving stakes into the top of the bank, say, six 

 feet apart; and to these nail one length of boards, say, 

 fourteen inches wide, and at the height of about four inches 

 from the top of the bank. 



This gives the fence the height of about four feet nine 

 inches from the bottoms of the ditches ; which height, con- 

 sidenng the particular advantage of this kind of fence, of 

 svhich we shall next speak, will, as we imagine, be found 

 sufficient to turn the most unruly cattle. 



The advantage of the fence consists in this : The eleva- 

 tion of the bank, with its addition, is too great for cattle to 



