48 FENCING. 



the other tiers or courses of throughs above 

 them, each row tapering as the wall rises in 

 height. The foundation and groundwork 

 having been levelled and made good, let a 

 heavy flat stone be laid projecting about two or 

 three inches from the front of the first courses 

 of strong heavy stones laid above it. Let the 

 entire wall, from end to end, be raised to .the 

 height proper to receive the first course of 

 binders, which should be level with the front, 

 but may project an inch or two at the back, 

 of the fence. In raising the fence, care 

 should be taken to fill up the inside with 

 broken stone, so as to leave not even room 

 for mice or weasels to breed inside it, or to 

 allow the wind any access to it ; this should 

 be done in solid, well filled-up, dry stonema- 

 sonry. When the structure has reached the 

 height of eighteen or twenty inches more, 

 well filled up within, let the second tier of 

 binders be laid as aforesaid, not immediately 

 above the lower tier, but at alternate dis- 

 tances above, or mocking each other. 



