Potomac landings . any on the lower river, and notablyGunston and Belvoir in upper tidewater, only a smallfraction of the land abutted other land and had to befenced off. Each of the two plantations mentionedabove contained thousands of acres but each had awater boundary of several miles and a division fenceless than a mile long across the head of the peninsula. The growing crops were protected from the grazinganimals by rail or snake fences, but a peninsular estatewas sometimes fenced uncommon high across its narrowhead, even with a high barrier of palings, to stay thenative deer, which were
Potomac landings . any on the lower river, and notablyGunston and Belvoir in upper tidewater, only a smallfraction of the land abutted other land and had to befenced off. Each of the two plantations mentionedabove contained thousands of acres but each had awater boundary of several miles and a division fenceless than a mile long across the head of the peninsula. The growing crops were protected from the grazinganimals by rail or snake fences, but a peninsular estatewas sometimes fenced uncommon high across its narrowhead, even with a high barrier of palings, to stay thenative deer, which were a picturesque and prized featureof the plantation. These wild creatures found theirway out, however, and ranged west toward the moun-tains just ahead of civilization and there the hunter haspractically extinguished them. Washington domesti-cated the remnant of the herd at Mount Vernon andenclosed them on the steep wooded hillside between hishouse and the river where they became a much-remarkedfeature of his a CO -^ .«
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