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1 making the whole expence for ditching, setting, 

 e and fencing of 40 pole, to be 6/. reck'ning with the 

 least ; for I know not any that will undertake to do 

 ' it under 3/. 6d. per pole, and then the 40 pole costs 

 4 7/. Whereas, with double ditches, both of them, 

 ' setting and sets, will be done for 8</. per pole, and 

 4 the husbandman get as good wages, as with a single 

 ' ditch, (for tho' the labour about them is more, yet 

 ' the making the table is saved) which costs i /. 6s. %d. 

 1 And the hedges being but low, they'll make better 

 ' wages at hedging for a penny the pole, than at two 

 ' pence for common hedges ; which comes to 6s. %d. 

 ' for hedging forty pole on both sides : Thus one load 

 1 of wood, will fence 30 pole at least, and 40 hedg'd 

 ' with f of wood less, than in the other way, and 

 ' cost but i/. 6s. 8^/. which makes the whole charge 

 ' of sets, ditching, fencing, and wood, but three 

 ' pounds. /. s. d. 



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Hitherto this obliging and industrious gentleman. 



1 1 . To other uses : The Root of an old thorn is 

 excellent both for boxes and combs, and is curiously 

 and naturally wrought : I have read, that they made 

 ribs to some small boats or vessels with the white- 

 thorn, and it is certain, that if they would plant them 

 single, and in standards, where they might be safe, 

 they would rise into large body'd trees in time, and be 

 of excellent use for the turner, not inferior to box, 

 and accounted among the fortunate trees, and there- 



