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height, as seen from within; and by sloping 

 the ground without, so as to get four feet, 

 you have a sufficient fence except against deer; 

 where that is necessary, a slight iron wire 

 addition on the top of the wall will answer 

 the purpose, and be scarcely visible from the 

 windows. Previous to building the wall, I 

 should recommend trying the effect both of 

 its height and situation, by throwing a garden 

 mat over a pole a few yards long, which may 

 be shifted till the best situation, &c. is ascer- 

 tained. I have met, occasionally, with places, 

 where to fill up an existing sunk fence would 

 be very expensive : in that case, I would erect 

 a wall on the inside of it, so as to remove all 

 idea of an invisible fence ; a skirting wall of a 

 foot or eighteen inches high will effect this, 

 if circumstances, either of cost or situation, 

 forbid a higher. Where stone is not easily 

 procured, the wall may be built of brick, and 

 splashed to resemble stone, which is the case 

 with the wall at Cassiobury, as it is, indeed, 

 with the house itself. Where the walk ac- 

 companies the line of wall, the effect, I think, 

 is better, when it is unbroken by any creepers: 

 but, where there is a space between them to 

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