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APPENDIX, 



A table for ascertaining the number of roods in a 

 dike, according to the height, will be afterwards given. 

 If the carriages are not contracted for by the distance, 

 but paid for by the time employed, 6d. per hour is counted 

 fair payment for a man with a horse and cart. 



If the stones are thick and large, or from a quarry 

 which requires to be blasted, a double dike should be 

 2 feet 6 inches broad at bottom, 3 feet 6 inches high, and 

 1 foot 8 inches broad at top, over which there should be 

 a coping of 9 inches. If the stones are thinner, they will 

 answer to be 3 inches narrower. The expense of build- 

 ing is the same in either case, and varies from lOs. to 

 12s. per rood. 



A sunk fence, 20 inches deep, with six feet of a sloping 

 bank, can be cast and built for 3s. 4d. per rood, 36 yards 

 lineal measure. Facing with stone can be done at 7s, 

 per rood, of 36 yards square, exclusive of the cost of the 

 stones, of which there is required for this purpose about 

 two-thirds of what is used for a double dike. If the 

 height be 4 feet, a hedge has a fine effect on the top of a 

 sunk fence, and may be either of thorns or beech, or 

 both. If mixed, two thorns and one beech, 9 inches 

 apart, will make a good hedge. 



Hedge-rows ought always to be planted in clean land, 

 after fallow or green crop. If that cannot be done, the 

 ground should be cleaned and manured with the spade 

 before planting. If the fence be hedge and ditch, the 

 size of the latter will, of course, be in proportion to the 



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