264 WOLDS. 20. 



In flocking a warren, whether the furface 

 be flat or hilly, ARTIFICIAL BURROWS are 

 made to reconcile the rabbits to the ground, 

 and to preferve them from vermin until they 

 have time to make their own burrows. In 

 making thefe artificial burrows, an improve- 

 ment has lately, I believe, been hit upon. 

 They are bored with an AUGER of a diameter 

 large enough to make a burrow of a fufficient 

 width. In a level warren, thefe AUGERS may 

 from time to time be found ufeful. 



3. WARREN-FENCES. The common fence 

 upon the Wolds is fodwall, capped with furze, 

 or of late with ftiffftraw, forming a kind of 

 thatch *. The warrens near Driffield are 

 fenced with paling -, an expenfive fence in the 

 outfet, and always under \ repairs. A brook, 

 though ever fo deep, is found to be infuffi- 

 cient as a fence againil rabbits : one fide of 

 Driffieldgreets-warren is bounded by a 

 brook j but it is neverthelefs fenced with 

 paling. When the rabbits can evade this, 

 they readily fwim the brook. 



4. SPE- 



* Reed would be admirable in this intention ; and 

 might perhaps be had at a reafonable coft from the fens 

 of Holdernels, or thofe at the foot of the Vale of 

 York. 



