CHAP. II. 



PLANTATIONS 



IN order to afford some facility to the reader 

 in perusing what I may write, I shall divide what 

 I have to say into several distinct heads; and, 

 first, as to the 



present jjiltolrcs of planting. 



Much may, and prohably ought, to be said, 

 on the errors of bad planters : it is indeed a pro- 

 lific, as well as an important subject; and if there 

 were any solid ground on which to rest a hope 

 that an exposure of all the mistakes which are 

 made in planting, would lead to the abandonment 

 of such plans and practices as would be shown to 

 be wrong, it would be a duty worthy the exercise 

 of talents of the highest order. It does not, how- 

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