TREATING OF CONTRIVANCE 



If the length of the walke be confin'd, divide it 

 by the distance you niynd to plant it ; and if there 

 be any odd, add or subtract till all the distances 

 be equal ; which distance you must take on a chain 

 (fora line will reach or shrink) and begin at one end, 

 and go straight to the other, thrusting in a small 

 stake at each length ; minding to let both rowes 

 go on squair together, that is, one on each side. 



And though the ground be unevenly, yet you 

 must hold the chain level, wherefore you may have 

 a squair and plumb fixed at your pole or staff for 

 your more exact performance thereof. 



When you have staked out the ground, prepare 

 the rounding-string, viz., a piece of line doubled, 

 and tyed near the point of a stick, and so put the 

 double on the stakes where the trees must stand ; 

 and stretching the same, make a scratch with the 

 point of the stick round, and, with a spade, follow 

 that compass, and make the hole. 



If you observe what be said, you may stake out 

 any kind of walk, having found one line ; where- 

 fore I shall shew you how to find one line, what- 

 ever obstruct. 



As first, suppose you would run a line or walk 

 through a wood; when you have concluded on the 



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