s.%t DISTRICT. 



XIII. KEDGEROVv^S. The Dan-. 

 MONi AN Fence is comrnor. to the South 

 Hams. High mounds farmounted by 

 Coppice wood. Not a Hedgerow Tree or 

 a Pollard in a hundred fquare miles I As 

 naked of Hedge Timber, as the recently 

 inclofed lends of Leicefierfliire. Perhaps 

 the fea air is an enemy to Hedgerow Trees, 

 Or the high mounds of this Country are not 

 fit ta receive them . Or the life-leafe tenure 

 has an interefl: in preventing their riling, 



XIV. PRESENT PRODUCTIONS. 

 Along the Northern margin of the Diftri(ft, 

 and on the fleep rugged hanks of the Dart» 

 Plots of Woodland are obfervable. But 

 fpeaking generally of the South Hams of 

 Devonshire, they may be faid to be deftitute 

 of wood ; except what grows on the Hedge 

 banks. Yet the fuel of the Country is 

 wood ; and it is, I believe,, abundantly fup- 

 plied with that neceffary article, from its 

 Hedges : a circumftance which would no 

 longer appear extraordinary, if we were to 

 calculate the proportional quantity of the 

 lands of the Diftrict, which they occupy. 



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