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FENCES. 



FENCES. 



THE PARTICULAR articles which re- 

 quire to be noticed under this head are, 



I.Gates, 4. Dead Hedges, 



2. Fence- Walls, 5. Live Hedges, 



3. Polls and Rails, 6. Hedgerow-timber. 



I. Gates. The conimon field-gates of this 

 country are, in general, made Jlighter and 

 niuch ialkr than thofe of other Diftrids. In 

 Surrey and Kent^ three feet eight or nine 

 inches is the ordinary height of a gate ; 

 which is there compofed of four common 

 bars, and a ftrong top raih Here, gates have 

 generally fix or feven bars, all equally flight ; 

 and the common height five to fix feet. 



Horses are the grcatcfl enemies of gates. 

 A low gate, let its ftrength be almoft what it 

 may, is no fence againrt a refolute powerful 

 horfe. If he can place the mufcular -part of 



his 



