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more fubftantial fencing, Marram Banks might, j 06. 



at a trifling cxpencc, be converted into a barrier MARRAM 

 not to be broken by the fea : for, notwith- 

 ftanding the long and violent eafterly winds 

 which have lately blown, fuch as to violence 

 and continuance has fcarcely been known be- 

 fore, there is only one place in which the fea 

 has been able to move even thefe bramble- 

 faggots ; and this has happened in a gap which 

 is wider than ordinary : the faggots, here, being 

 forced out and fcattered over the marfhes. 



From the curfory view I have had, the 

 moil eligible way of joining the hillocks, fo 

 as to form a regular embankment, feems to be 

 this : Make a double fence in each gap ; 

 placing the two fences at, perhaps, twenty or 

 thirty yards diftance from each other; or, 

 more generally fpcaking, at five to ten yards 

 within the "ikirts of the prefent bank. As 

 foon as the hollow fpace between the firft pair 

 of fences be filled up with fand, raifc another 

 pair, a few yards within the firft ; and above 

 thefe another, and another, until the gap be 

 filled up, or be raifed to a fufficient height ; 

 and then, on the top, propagate the marram 

 plant. 



Two rows of faggots might be fufficient for 

 the narrow gaps ; and for the larger ones ihip- 



wreck, 



