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Excerpt from Travels to the Westward of the Allegany Mountains, in the States of the Ohio, Kentucky, and Tennessee, in the Year 1802
I reached Lancaster, which 15 sixty-six miles from Philadelphia, on the afternoon of my departure. The turnpike-roads are kept in good order, by means of tolls collected at certain distances. In this space the houses are nearly all within sight one of ano ther, and each owner has an inclosure. Throughout the United States the cultivated lands are all inclosed, to secure them from the ravages of all drinds of cattle; which, for the greater part of the year, are left by every proprietor ii] the woods that are for this purpose common to them 'all. In the vicinity of the towns these inclosures are made with stakes, placed at the distance of ten or twelve feet from each other, and perforated 11 ith five mortises at the space of eight or nine inches; 111 which are fitted branches of trees unstripped of their ba1k, of a proper length, and about four or five inches 111 diameter. This mode of inclosing 18 most proper and economical, because it saves the wood, which is very dear m the environs of the large northern towns but 1n the 111 terior parts and the southern states, the inclosures are made of pieces of wood of an equal length, placed one above another m an angular form, and supported by their ends, which are'crossed and intertwined together. The inclosures are generally seven feet high. In the lower parts of Carolina they are made of pine; but in the rest of the country, and in the whole of the north, they are of Oak or chesnut. When they are kept in good order they last about five-and-twenty years.
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