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*' nature ?" On the contrary, it appears, that 

 in his anxiety to claim the powerful support 

 of the writer whom he quotes, he has over- 

 looked that writer's own account of the origin 

 of the deformities which he has been cen- 

 suring, when he says, — " These abortions 

 " have been the consequence of a resolution 

 *' to occupy with trees only those parts of 

 " the hill where nothing else will grow, and 

 *' which, therefore, is carved out of for their 

 " accommodation, with up and down, and 

 " snip and slash, whatever unnatural and fan- 

 " tastic form may be thereby assigned to 

 " their boundaries." We will, therefore, dis- 

 miss this whole group of uncouth forms, pre- 

 suming only that the penny tarts were not of 

 the usual shape, or they would have better 

 suited the taste of the author of the Planter's 

 Guide. 



So far, indeed, is the Review in question 

 from affording that assistance to Sir Henry 

 Steuart's system, which in truth it stands in 

 need of, that the spirit of the whole criticism 

 is as remote from Sir Henry's ideas, as those 

 ideas are from true taste. Let any one read 

 attentively the excellent hints as to the form 

 and disposal of plantations, which are to be 



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