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14. 



LIVE HEDGES. 



THE WOODLANDS of Eaft Norfolk 

 being few, underwood, either Iti a'b;?^j or iri 

 coppices, is in a manner unknown. The 

 HEDGE-ROWS, aioHC, may be faid to furnilh the 

 Diflrit^ with timher, top-wood^ and under- 



Old hedges, in general, al)ound with oak^ 

 afh, and maple flubs, off which the wo6d is cut 

 ai'ery time the hedge is felled; alfo with pol- 

 lards, whofe heads are another ibiirce of fire- 

 wood; which, in a country where Coals can be 

 liad only by fl^a, is of courfe fought after : yet 

 it is a fadtj as iibtorious as it is interettihg, that 

 Eaft-Norfolk docs not experience, to any 

 degree of inconveniency, a warit either of tim- 

 ber or firewood ; although its entire fupply 

 may be faid^ with little latitude, to be fronf 

 kcdgeirows. 



It is probably from this circumflance, that 

 Kedge-wood is fuficred to fland to fo great an? 



