IN SCOTLAND.

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dike, or earthen mound, they may suffice of two feet or a lit-tle more. In this latter case, a dead fence or cock-hedge ofcut thorns is often erected on the top of the mound.

Moveable temporary fences, called flakes, similar to gates,are often used for confining sheep or cattle to their regularallotments of turnips, or for other similar uses. Net fences,supported upon stakes, are also in use for the same purposes.Ail of these fences are so common and ordinary, as not to re-quire any minute description.

SECT. VI.

OF THE EXPENCE OF DIFFERENT KINDS OF FENCES,

JTHE charges of the different kinds of fences are so much af-fected by a variety of circumstances, owing to the distance orscarcity of materials, the nature of the soil, the rates of wages,and the like, that no calciilatious entitled to the character ofcorrectness can be offered. We are therefore under the ne-cessity of confining our attention to a mere sketch, or ap-proximation only on this subject.

If, by way of illustration, a light railing, or stake and ricefence, on the top of an earthen dike, Of about two feet high,be estimated, for materials and workmanship, at sixpence therood, of nineteen feet in length ; a strong rail fence, or stakeand rice, to answer as a fence on the flat surface, may costfrom one shilling and sixpence to two shillings 5 a feal dike,including the top fence, from one shilling to one shilling andsixpence ; a ditch and clap-dike, with a tow of young thornsfor a hedge, including thorn plants, labour, and manure forthe soil, but independent of the railing or cock-hedge, fromthree shillings to three shillings and sixpence; a sunk fence>