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road the land is entirely arable, and scarcely a tree breaks the 
neat and pleasing monotony of alternation furnished by square 
field and straight fence. The homestead stands on the pasture 
side of the high road, about midway between the east and west 
boundaries of the farm ; and from that point, looking northwards, 
nearly two-thirds of the arable land can be seen at one glance. 
The fields, with their various shades of green, and brown, and 
white ; and the hedges, with their identity of form, colour, and 
size, give the impression of a large garden divided into beds by 
prim box edging, rather than of a farm where nothing is done 
that will not pay. 
The fences were made by planting on the level nine quicks in 
the yard. They have been trimmed once a year on both sides at 
a cost of ?>\d. per chain, including raking up ; and have thus been 
kept to a height of from 4 to 5 feet, of a somewhat triangular 
form, the base measuring a little more than 4 feet across the 
water-boughs, the sides being slightly convex, and making an 
angle of about 45° at the ridge. The fences show the variation 
in the quality of the land with as much precision as a thermo- 
meter will indicate variations in temperature. Accordingly 
there is a perfect gradation from the most luxuriant fences on 
the pastures to the comparatively stunted ones in the gravel 
bottom. 
In 1849 and 1850 Mr. Jordan divided the Warren Farin into 
fields, and made the two main roads which run through it 
towards Elmswell and Garton. He levelled 6 miles of warren 
sod-walls, planted 20 miles of quick-fences, and protected them 
with 40 miles of post and rail. Most of the fields on the Warren 
are about 60 acres in extent ; at Eastburn the majority run about 
30 acres, though some range up to 60. 
Ponds. 
The farm is thoroughly well supplied with water by a 
number of wold-ponds, which are perfectly circular in form, 
and are placed either in the line of a fence, or where three or 
four fences join ; thus supplying two, three, or four fields. The 
straight line of the hedge-row is thus abruptly stopped ; but the 
fence is continued all round the pond quite as carefully and 
neatly as elsewhere, access to it being obtained through a gate- 
way from each field which it supplies. These ponds are about 
20 yards in diameter, and have a depth of about 5 feet in the 
centre, the bed having the shape of a basin, or a segment of a 
hollow globe. The bed is made of about G inclies of well-beaten 
puddled clay, resting upon a good layer of quicklime, another 
layer of which is then laid upon the clay, and the whole is 
