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a funk one : but only as a limple, unaffeded 

 manner of inclofing a field near a plain, com- 

 mon houfe J and perhaps lefs offenlive, than 

 chains, wires, nets, or any of thofe flight, 

 unnatural fences, which cannot be hid, and 

 yet appear fo difproportioned. I fhould wifh 

 my rails however to be without ornament y 

 and either to be left in their natural colour, 

 or to be painted of fome dingy olive-green 

 hue : if they are of a bright-green, of a white, 

 or of any other glaring colour, they difguft. 

 They are at beft only difagreeable conveniences : 

 ornament makes them objeBs. But above all 

 ornaments we are difgufted with the Chinefe. 

 That zig-zag work, commonly called Chinefe- 

 railing, is very offenfive. Plain, fimple pofts, 

 with one, two, or three rails, according to 

 the fort of cattle we wifh to exclude, make 

 the leaft difgufting fence. 



Oppofite to the royal lodge ftands a large 

 fquare building, with a turret at each corner, 

 where the king's horfes, carriages, and ftag- 

 hounds are kept. 



I do 



