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and therefore were deftined to keep the 

 meat and milk frefli. 



. Almost all the enclofures round the 

 corn-fields and meadows hereabouts, were 

 made of planks faftened in a horizontal di- 

 rection . I only perceived a hedge of privet 

 in one fingle place. The enclofures were 

 not made like ours, for the people here 

 take pofts from four to fix feet in height, 

 and make two or three holes into them, fo 

 that there was a diftance of two feet and 

 above between them. Such a poft does the 

 fame fervice as two, and fometimes three 

 poles are fcarce fufficient. The pofts were 

 faftened in the ground, at two or three fa- 

 thoms diftance from each other, and the 

 holes in them kept up the planks, which 

 were nine inches, and fometimes a foot 

 broad, and lay above each other from one 

 poft to the next. Such an enclofure there- 

 fore looked at a diftance like the hurdles 

 in which we enclofe the flieep at night 

 in Sweden. They were really no clofer 

 than hurdles, being only deftined to keep 

 out the greater animals, fuch as cows and 

 horfes. The hogs are kept near the farm- 

 houfes every where about Philadelphia, and 

 therefore this enclofure does not need to be 

 made clofer on their account. Chefnut 

 trees were commonly made ufe of for this 



purpofe. 



