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turning on the one, and closing upon the o- 

 ther, and furnished with different contrivances 

 to fasteri or lock them. Sometimes they con- 

 sist of four or five bars, which are made to slide 

 backward and forward, through openings in the 

 upright posts, or which are hung and fastened 

 to the posts with iron chains. The gates, how- 

 ever, about the mansion-houses of the principal 

 proprietors, are generally of the best materials, 

 and of superior workmanship. To describe the 

 various kinds would be tedious, as well as un- 

 necessary, as they are to be found in all the va- 

 riety of structure and elegance, which fancy or 

 mechanical ingenuity has been able to devise. 



