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his chefi firmly againft the top-rail, fcarccly 

 any ftrcngth of wood can refift him. But if 

 the top bar be placed high enough to receive 

 his windpipe infiead of his chcft, his power 

 of injuring the gare is in a manner wholly 

 taken away. It is therefore no wonder that, 

 in a country where the breeding of horfes has 

 long been a common praftice, high gates 

 Ihould have grown into common ufe. 



The HANGING OF GATES is an art little nn- 

 derftood even by the hangers of gates them- 

 felves, though highly interefling and ufeful 

 in Rural Economy. 



A perfon here who has paid unufual atten- 

 tion to the fubjeft, and who has in reality 

 made himfelf maftcr of it, dill continues to 

 hang his gates x^^onpivots fixed ^t the feet of 

 the hartrees *. 



This was undoubtedly the original method 

 of hanging gates, and is perhaps, all things 

 cbnfidered, the belh 



It is probable, that in the infancy of the 



art the foot of the hartree was itfelf formed 



O 2 into 



* Hartree ; the principal end-piece, into which the 

 bars are mortifed, and by which the gate is hung : op- 

 jpofedto the iiEAD, the other end-piece. 



