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exposed and elevated grounds, the higher the fences so much 

 the better, both for effect and utility. Almost every part of 

 the country has some fences peculiar to it. By enquiring into 

 these, and contrasting them with those in other parts of the 

 country, the best and most economical may easily be disco- 

 vered. 



6th. Hedgerow timber. Tins is highly advantageous in cer- 

 tain soils and situations, and highly destructive, both of beauty 

 and use, in others ; as I shall have occasion to observe under 



PLANTING*. 



Sheltering exposed grounds. In fixing on the proper 

 places for marking out plantations of this sort, considerable 

 reflection is requisite. It does not consist in fixing on the 

 highest spots, and in a regular distribution of the masses, as 

 some tell us; but in finding out where the current of wind 

 strikes most violently, either when first obstructed by the hills, 

 or after it has been reverberated ; which often points out decli- 

 vities, and lesser eminences, as proper places for planting upon ; 

 and directs us also to proportion the magnitude of the different 

 plantations, in a manner corresponding with these effects. A 

 knowledge of this may be obtained by examining the appear- 



* See also, in confirmation o£ the same ideas, Mr. Kent's Hints on Landed 

 Property. 



