GALLOWAY DIKES, &C. 



The chief art in building them confifts in af- 

 forting the ftones at fight, fo as that they may bed 

 well, and hold together firmly. The low price 

 generally allowed for this kind of building will 

 hardly admit of the ufe of the drefling tool. The 

 flatted and fquareft of the ftones which are of a 

 confiderable fize, mould be ufed in building about 

 two feet of the lower part of the wall, while the 

 more irregular pieces of the largeft fixe mould be 

 referved for the under part of the coping, which 

 is to be terminated of a wedge-fhape upwards, 

 with the fmaller ftones. The quality of the ma- 

 terials muft generally determine the height of 

 fuch walls. The beft ftones will not admit of 

 being built more than five feet high in this way 

 but from four to five feet may be the medium 

 height of the Galloway dike. 



DRY-STONE DIKES. 



Fencing with common ftone dikes may now 

 be carried on with propriety. The ftones moft 

 proper for building dry -ftone dikes are fuch as 

 naturally have a flat or fquare form from the 

 quarry. Walls built with fuch materials, and 

 afterv/ards, at the proper feafon, pointed with 

 good mortar, and coped with danders, * as ad- 



vifed 



* Slags from glass-houses, salt-works, or i 



