42BOUNDARIES, GATES AND FENCES.


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This form permits a person within to overlook the road,
whilst it wholly excludes the view of the passenger, and avoids
the offence of a high wall. The rear and side fences of a pro-
perty may generally be formed in a way less hostile to landscape,
by hedges and ditches with open wood posts and rails, until the
natural fence is capable of affording more ample protection.
Pieces of water and any other rural means analogous to the ge-
neral character of the spot, may be used for this purpose; and
when there is an opportunity of commanding a distant prospect,
or of overlooking a fine and fertile country, similar modes of
separation may be used, and which are also more generally
applicable to internal separations of the domain.
FENCES OF SUBDIVISION.
Many contrivances have been resorted to for the purpose of
separating ground so that the appearances of confinement or
restraint shall exist in the least possible degree-this in the
immediate vicinity of the dwelling is absolutely needful, if cattle
are at any time pastured near it. Mr. Brown and the improvers
of his day, adopted the Ha, ha! by which contrivance no actual
division appears when the lawn is viewed from the house.


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