222 PROTECTION OF WOODLANDS. 



State or by the great landed proprietors, a demarcation register 

 should be kept, showing : 



1. The name of each separate locality or forest. 



2. The number of its boundary marks. 



3. The distance from each mark to the next. 



4 The angle (acute or obtuse expressed in degrees) formed 

 at each mark with those next to it in either direction. 



5. The name of the owner, and the nature of the land march- 



ing with or contiguous to it. 



6. The mention of points at which the boundary is intersected 



by roads, paths, streams, &c. 



108. The Vp-Tceep of Boundary Marks. 



The maintenance of boundaries in good and serviceable order 

 is just as important as their demarcation in the first instance, for, 

 from one reason or another, they are always liable to get damaged 

 and displaced, especially when they are not of the most durable 

 description. The necessary repairs are generally very simple at 

 the outset, but the longer rectifications are delayed, the greater 

 becomes the difficulty of restoring matters to their original posi- 

 tion without a considerable amount of trouble and delay. 



It is, therefore, advisable that a revision of all the boundary 

 marks should be made at least once a year, and that on eacl 

 such occasion any discrepancies should be noted, and, if possible, 

 immediately rectified. 



Where the boundary should happen to run through timber 

 crops, which will seldom occur in British woodlands, except so 

 far as regards the interior and administrative division of the area 

 into compartments and the like, boundary lines should be kept 

 clear of all growth on neutral strips of land extending equally to 

 each side of the actual or imaginary boundary line, and broad 

 enough to permit of one stone being seen from the other, and 

 these narrow lanes or vistas should be kept clear of boughs, 

 coppice-shoots, shrubs, &c. 



When the boundary stones occur at the corner of roads or on 

 spots where they are likely to be damaged or displaced by carts, 

 they should be protected by stones placed at the sides and in 

 front of them. Where the woods are bordered by fields, they are 



