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ment fo-r it is, that they Hand the weather better. But if the 

 turfs are well laid, and foundly clapped together with the back 

 of a fpade, there is not the fmalleft danger of their failing at 

 that height, and therefore I would advife them to be laid with- 

 in fix or eight inches of being perpendicular : My reafons for 

 which are, that I mean this bank, with the Sweet Briars plant- 

 ed on it, as foon as pofTible to hang over that fide of the ditch 

 imder it, to prevent violent rains from waihing it down, and 

 which^ by giving it the ufual flope, cannot fo fbon be afPedled. 

 It will alfo be a better defence againll cattle,, w^ho often make at- 

 tempts to get over ditches and banks that have too eafy a Hope ; 

 but from this pofition they have no footing, and when the 

 Sweet Briars are grown two years, cattle in the bottom of the 

 ditch cannot raife their heads, without being oppofed by therp, 

 which they will not attempt a fecond time. A fheep-park thus 

 inclofed, will, in three or four years, confine thefe animals no 

 lefs efFedlually than the higheft, wall, as they, and indeed horfes 

 or cows, cannot bear the touch of them. No perfon in ordinary 

 circumflances need fcruple the expence of the Sweet Briars, 

 as there is not any plant more eafily or expeditioufly raifed j but 

 if. you have them not, and do not chufe the trouble or delay of 

 raifmg them, they may be purchafed for a, few fhillirigs per 

 thoufand. The Briars abound with fo great a quantity of pene- 

 trating roots and fibres, as foon to render any bank they a<re 

 placed on impenetrable as a wall ; and there is no plant yet dif- 

 covered fo proper for filling up the gaps of old hedges of all 

 kinds, where plants of the fame fort with thefe hedges will not 

 fucceed, . But I fhall proceed to the inner fide of the bank. 



Having furniflied this with the beft earth you can procure, 

 Hope it fo gradually as that the rains may not wafh it down, to. 



