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rent, and meafured with the eye as well as 

 with the chain. No one can doubt the ne- 

 ceffity of enclofing a park, or a pleafu re- 

 ground, and of hiding (at leaft in a great 

 meafure) that enclofure; the only queftion 

 is about the mode of hiding it. 



There are two different ways in which 

 the owner's vanity (a very powerful and 

 common agent) may operate on this occa- 

 fion, according to the extent of the ground 

 enclofed. 



If it fhould be fmall, he will moll fin- 

 cerely wifh that it fhould not be known 

 where the boundary goes; though he may 

 not take the proper method of concealment. 



If, on the contrary, the extent mould be 

 very great, the owner may as fmcerely wifh 

 to mark that extent, by diftinctly marking 

 the courfe of the boundary; though he would 

 be equally defirous of concealing the fence 

 it/elf. 



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