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fenced lands, and boundaries were undefined. Each of 
the three quarters on Col. Fitzhugh’s thousand acres, for 
example, is described as having “grounds and fencing” 
—that is sufficient ground for crops, fenced in—but 
there is no hint of an outer boundary fence. 
The fence used at the quarters was probably hori¬ 
zontal boards fastened to posts, laid close together 
at the bottom but spaced out at the top, although it 
may have been the same as the “yeard” inclosure 
wherein the offices at his own dwelling were mostly 
situated. This, it will be remembered, was “locust 
puncheons”—that is, outer slabs of locust logs, peeled 
of their bark. The use of these was good management, 
for it left no waste, but utilized every bit of the timber 
that was cut. It is of this “pallizado” that he espe¬ 
cially boasted, saying it was as good as a wall and more 
lasting than any brick made here. 
His garden he mentions particularly as “pailed in” 
—and we may be sure that he would not have used 
the different term just for variety. Pales were less 
crude and would tend to dress it up, as a garden should 
be; so undoubtedly paled it was, with the stakes set 
close enough to bar even the tiniest poachers, and of 
course driven well into the ground that none might 
work their way under. 
Inclosures made by the Dutch, after the years of 
Indian warfare were over, commonly were open, that 
