ders the charge of hedging, ditching, and sets,
12d. the pole; that is, for forty rod in length, forty shillings:
Then one load of wood out of the copp'ce costs us, with the
carriage, (tho' but two or 3 miles distance) ten shillings; which
will seldom hedge above 8 pole (single hedge.) But allowing it to
do ten, to fence 40 pole, there must be at least 8 load of wood,
which costs 4l. making the whole expence for ditching, setting,
and fencing of 40 pole, to be 6l. reck'ning with the least; for I
know not any that will undertake to do it under 3s. 6d. per
pole, and then the 40 pole costs 7l. Whereas, with double
ditches, both of them, setting and sets, will be done for 8d.
_per_ pole, and the husbandman get as good wages, as with a single
ditch, (for tho' the labour about them is more, yet the making the
table is saved) which costs 1l. 6s. 8d. And the hedges being
but low, they'll make better wages at hedging for a penny the pole,
than at two pence for common hedges; which comes to 6s. 8d. for
hedging forty pole on both sides: Thus one load of wood, will fence
30 pole at least, and 40 hedg'd with 2/3 of wood less, than in the
other way, and cost but 1l. 6s. 8d. which makes the whole
charge of sets, ditching, fencing, and wood, but three pounds.

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Hitherto this obliging and industrious gentleman.

11. To other uses: The Root of an old thorn is excellent both for boxes
and combs, and is curiously and naturally wrought: I have read, that
they made ribs to some small boats or vessels with the white-thorn, and
it is certain, that if they would plant them single, and in standards,
where they might be safe, they would rise into large body'd trees in
time, and be of excellent use for the turner, not inferior to box, and
accounted among the fortunate trees, and therefore us'd in _fasces
nuptiarum_, since the jolly shepherds carryed the white-thorn at the
rapine of the Sabines; and ever since counted{192:1} propitious.

The distill'd water, and stone, or kernels of the haw reduc'd to powder,
is generally agreed to be sovereign against the stone. The black-crab
rightly season'd and treated, is famous for walking-staves, and if
over-grown, us'd in mill-work; yea, and for rafters of great ships