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Befides the ufual European methods of concealing 

 boundaries by ha-has, and funk fences, they have others, 

 ftill more effectual. On flats, where they have naturally 

 no profpects of exterior obje&s, they enclofe their plan- 

 tations with artificial terraffes, in the form of walks, to 

 which you afcend by infenfible Hopes : thefe they border 

 ox) the infide with thickets of lofty trees and underwood; 

 and on the outfide, with low fhrubberies; over which the 

 pafTenger fees the whole fcenery of the adjacent country, 

 in appearance forming a continuation of the Garden, as 

 its. fence is carefully concealed amongft the fhrubs that 

 cover the outfide declivity of the terrafs. 



And where the Garden happens to ftand on higher 

 ground than the adjacent country, they carry artificial 

 rivers round the outfkirts, under the oppofite banks of 

 which the boundaries are concealed, amongft trees and 

 fhrubs. Sometimes too they make ufe of ftrong wire 

 fences, painted green, faftened to the trees and fhrubs 

 that border the plantations, and carried round in many 

 irregular directions, which are fcarcely feen till you come 



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