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The ‘ Observations .on the various modes 
of Inclosing Land, by Robert Somerville, 
Esq. of Haddington,' first attradled our 
notice. We expedfed to find, under this 
head, some remarks which would have ap-~ 
plied to the corredlion of many of the funda- 
mental errors which are daily committed in 
the pradfice of inclosing. Instead of this, a 
considerable part of the book (114 pages) is 
occupied with descriptions and various plates 
of the different modes of construdlinsf dead 
fences, and the raising of live ones. It is 
well known that the saying of labour, as far as 
is compatible with the principle of drainage, 
ought to be the main objedl in effedfing this 
secondary part of the improvement of in- 
closing. Witli that view, the materials which 
the locality of therespedfive situations afford, 
at the cheapest rate, ought to govern the 
form and mode of fencing. But we are sorry 
to add, that the price of labour, timber, and 
wood, is now so extremely expensive in this’ 
land, that deal boards imported across the 
Eastern Cctaj), are considered in the end, to 
