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4 6 foot broad, and gives more scope to place the 

 4 dead hedges farther from the sets ; and the ditches 

 4 being shallow, will in two years time, graze ; tho' 

 4 I confine my self for the most part to 9 or 10 ; 

 4 because I would take off the only objection of wasting 

 4 ground by this way, should others follow it. In 

 * reply to this, I affirm, that if you take 12 foot in 

 ' breadth, for ditch and bank, you wast more ground, 

 4 than by the common way : For in that a quick is 

 4 rarely set, but there is 9 foot between the dead 

 4 hedges, which is entirely lost all the time of fencing : 

 4 When as with double ditches, there remains at least 

 4 1 8 inches on each side where the turfs were set on 

 4 edge, that bear more grass than when it lay on the 



4 flat But admitting it did totally lay wast 3 



4 foot of ground, the damage were very inconsiderable, 

 4 since forty pearch, in lengh 220 yards, which makes 

 4 pearches, 7, 25", 9', or 7 pole J, which at 13 shiL 

 4 4 pence the acre, amounts not to jd. \ per ann. Now 

 4 that this is not only the best and cheapest way of 

 ' quick-setting, will appear by comparing the charge 

 ' of both : In the usual way, the charge of a 3 foot 

 4 ditch is 4*/. per pole, the owner providing sets ; if 

 4 the workman finds them, he will have for making 

 4 the said ditch, and setting them, %d. the pole, and 

 4 for hedging, two pence ; that is, for both sides 4^. 

 4 the pole, which renders the charge of hedging, 

 4 ditching, and sets, i zd. the pole ; that is, for forty 

 4 rod in length, forty shillings : Then one load of 

 4 wood out of the copp'ce costs us, with the carriage, 

 4 (tho' but two or 3 miles distance) ten shillings ; 

 4 which will seldom hedge above 8 pole (single hedge.) 

 4 But allowing it to do ten, to fence 40 pole, there 

 4 must be at least 8 load of wood, which costs 4/. 



