20$ FENCES* 



FENCES. 



ON FENCING GROUNDS IN GENERAL. 



THE utility of fencing grounds is and has been 

 a matter of common confent in almoft every civi- 

 lized and cultivated country. But while its ufe- 

 fulnefs has been admitted in the mod unlimited 

 manner, in too many instances has it been fo in 

 theory, without practice. In mod parts of the 

 country, we pafs but comparatively few fields, 

 and flill fewer plantations, without feeing them 

 expofed to the ravages of every browfing animal. 

 A mock ditch, a ragged hedge, or a broken wall, 

 is, in many inftances, the doughty barrier to de- 

 fend a valuable property from the inroads of cat- 

 tle. Yet, with comparatively a fmall fum, fences 

 both of durability and elegance, could be con- 

 ftructed and preferved. Indeed, nature has fo 

 abundantly provided the means of protecting 

 the labours of the field, that, where living fences 

 are difficult to be raifed, ftones are generally ve- 

 ry abundant ; fo that proprietors are literally 



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