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and ox-horn quicks till the wall has reached the desired 

 height. Only it is noted that the wall is battered, or 

 made narrower and narrower the higher it gets. Thus 

 there may often be seen in such a wall as many as six 

 strata of ox-horn quicks. The object of using these 

 quicks is principally to bind the earth in the wall by 

 them, and make it steady that it may not so soon slip 

 down. Sometimes there were less strata of these quicks 

 in a wall, as five, four and three ; but then there was 

 also more earth between each stratum, up to the thick- 

 ness of one or two feet ; but such a wall was not so 

 lasting as when more layers of ox-horn quicks were 

 inlaid in it. In some few places there were walls of 

 bare ox-horn quicks laid quite thick one upon another, 

 only that they filled up the spaces between the horns 

 with mould. Thus they knew here to make use of that 

 which in other places is thrown away. 



[T. I. p. 453.J The nth June, 1748. 

 Ox-horn Walls and barriers around Market Gardens. 

 To-day I saw on the north side of the Town a barrier or 

 wall around a market garden, which was built of bare 

 ox-horn quicks. The height thereof was four feet, the 

 breadth [T. I. p. 454] the same. It was not here as in 

 the former place laid strata-wise of ox-horn quicks and 

 earth, but the horns were piled up on one another as 

 thick as ever they could find room, and the interstices 

 only were filled up with mould. The large ends of the 

 quicks were turned outwards. The sides of these walls 

 were quite perpendicular. On the top there was as 

 much earth laid as would lie, som ktmde ligga qvar, 

 and this was now overgrown with the following plants, 

 which bound it together : — 



Convolvulus, 173. [C. Arvensis.] 



Hordeum, 107. [H. Murinum.] 



