60 SHELTER. 



edifice for my late lamented, kind, and stead- 

 fast friend, Thomas Legh, Esq. 



Where there are no coppices or plantations 

 to afford shelter to the stock grazing thereon 

 from sudden storms of wind and rain or sleet, 

 the simple plan adopted by our forefathers 

 of placing two walls, from eight to nine feet 

 high, in several situations, in any park or ex- 

 tensive enclosures, at angles, not too sharp 

 to each other, is an admirable one. That the 

 cattle, with their instinctive sensitiveness of 

 a storm's approach, may have time to get un- 

 der the influence of its shelter, each length 

 of the wall should be proportionate with 

 the number of cattle grazed on the land ; and 

 if the angle where they meet be too sharp, 

 the weaker stock cannot so easily get out of 

 the way of the jostling and horns of the 

 stronger. The deposits of horned cattle left 

 under such walls erected for shelter, attract 

 and detain any flight of woodcocks which 

 may drop in the night anywhere near them, 



