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fupplied by that which is dead : for, if 

 thefe circumftances are faulty, he will find 

 his expences, in the courfe of a leafe, run 

 very high, and his farm very ill fenced 

 into the bargain. 



As to the ditches in a country where 

 they are common, the worfe they are the 

 better; for they are generally, in that cafe, 

 filled up with the overflowings of the land, 

 and the rotting of the hedge wood ; fo that 

 the ditches are fo many dunghills, and will 

 pay five times over the expence of cleaning 

 and enlarging. 



The ftate of fences of this fort, upon the 

 whole, are found under a great variety of 

 circumftances : Calculations mould be made 

 by the new tenant of thofe expences which 

 are extraordinary, and beyond what may 

 reafonably be expected in a farm, the leafe 

 of which is run out. 



IV. Dead hedges with ditches are liable 

 almoft to as many objections as dead 

 hedges only : A man who hires a farm fo 

 fenced, muft be fure not to forget the cx"- 

 pence of planting all the banks with quick, 

 find then new-making the hedges, or he, 



will 



