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•will there fucceed better than mod other plants, and confolidatc 

 the banks fooner and more efFediially. 



The fences in "Windfor Forefl, for containing the deer, and 

 preventing their depredations in the adjoining fields and planta- 

 tions, are highly characlerifed by fome authors, and held by many 

 improvers as the befl model for hedges in general. But I am for- 

 ry I cannot agree with their fentiments, thofe I am well acquaint- 

 ed with having lived a confiderabie time in the neighbourhood 

 of them : They are conftrucfted by throwing up double ditches, 

 with the contents of which they form a bank between them ; 

 on the top of this bank, they plant a hedge-row of white Thorn, 

 Crab, Maple, Hazel, Elder, Elm, and Oak trees ; the banks they 

 cram full of black Thorns, Brambles, and common Briars ; below 

 which, and a little above the ditches, they form a dead hedge, 

 by driving flakes in the ground, interwoven with black and 

 white Thorns, Brambles, Briars, or whatever brufh-wood they 

 can moll conveniently procure, to prote(5l the plants till they be- 

 come fencible. That thefe kinds of bulwarks may frighten 

 deer, or even lions, wolves, and tygers from approaching them, 

 1 cannot doubt, as they prefent a moft unnatural, gloomy, and 

 horrid profpedl, and which, in my opinion, highly deform a fpot, 

 otherways abounding with the fweeteft, richefl, and moft mag- 

 nificent objects I ever beheld. One great argument ufed in de- 

 fence of thefe fences, is, the profitable returns they yield for 

 fuel, in a country where they have no coal nearer than London ; 

 but I fhould think very little ingenuity might contrive how to 

 raife more and better fuel on the fame quantity of ground, with- 

 out fliocking the fight, a great part of that being employed in 

 ■trumpery that yields very little good fuel : In fliort, I cannot 



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