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chain or line ; one to cany the bundle of picquets 
(which must be previously counted into hundreds, 
and accounted for) ; and the liner himself, who will 
receive the picquets, one by one, from the carrier, 
and drive them into the ground. 
The first object, in beginning to line a piece, is 
to establish your two primary lines at right angles 
to each other. This done, the person who holds 
the end of the chain or line at A, moves it to the 
second picquet at D, and the person holding the 
other end measures with his rod the distance from 
B towards E, and strains his line from D to E; 
along which the liner, as in the line A B, plants his 
picquets; and thus proceeds with each succeed¬ 
ing line or row, till the piece is completed. 
In the process of lining, another object of con-Fences, or 
sideration will occur to the Planter, and that is the 
number and distribution of his Fences or Live- 
hedges : and, in this place, it may not be amiss to 
enter into the history, and first introduction of 
these Fences or Live-hedges. It is in the memory 
of most Planters of any standing when Coffee- 
patches were planted like our Cane-Fields, with¬ 
out any fences or divisions ; and, until some 
dreadful ravages by Hurricanes suggested to the 
Planter the idea of protecting his plantations from 
the wind, was the planting these fences ever 
thought adviseable or necessary. 
Some Planters having adopted the System, and 
essayed 
