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Quintilian enjoy the fruits of his industry, and devoted himself 

 MarcusFa- with great assiduity to the study of literature. He 

 wrote a Treatise on the Causes of the Corruption of 

 Eloquence ; and, at the urgent request of several of his 

 friends, he composed his Jnslitutionts Oratoriae, which 

 contains a complete system of oratory, and which were 

 discovered in 1415, in an old tower of a monastery at 

 St, Gall, by Poggio Bracciolini of Florence. It is di- 

 ' vided into 12 books, in which he points out the kind 

 of education suited to an orator from his infancy. 



Quintilian was appointed preceptor to the two young 

 princes whom Domitian intended to make his succes- 

 sors ; but the pleasure which he derived from the fa- 

 vour of the Emperor, and the success of his works, was 

 sadly imbittered by the death of his wife and his two 

 sons, one of whom he has described as a prodigy of 

 premature talent. Quintilian died about A.D. 95. The 

 best editions of Quintilian are those of Gesner, Gotting. 

 1738, 4to. ; of Lug. Batav. 1665, cum notis .variorum ; 

 and that of Gibson, Oxon. l6'93. 



QUINTIN, ST. is a town of France, in the depart- 

 ment of the Aisne. It stands on the river Somme, on 

 'the canals of Crozat and St. Quintin. The streets, 

 'which are numerous, are tolerably wide, clean, and re- 

 ' gular, and many of the houses good and well built. 

 The market place is square. On one side of it is the 

 Hotel de Ville, and in the middle is a well with an ele- 

 gant iron rail and framing. The cathedral is a huge 

 mass of building, without either towers or spires, and 

 rising high above all the other houses in the town. It 

 is plain, and rather ugly on the outside, with a very 

 steep roof. The portal at the west end is very heavy, 

 with a mixture of Greek architecture. The cathedral 

 has, what is unusual, two transepts, which give great 

 variety and richness to the interior. In consequence 

 of this, the breadth of the whole of the choir, including 

 the aisles, &c. is the breadth or length of the transept. 

 The sculptures between the pillars of the choir, and 

 seen from behind, have been much defaced. In one of 

 the little chapels on the right hand of the altar there are 

 'some fine paintings and tapestry, and the painted glass 

 in the windows, particularly in those of the choir, is 

 very grand. A noble iron grate and railing separates the 

 choir from the nave. The north window of the great 

 transept is very grand, and there is a fine circular 

 mirage in the north end of the little transept. The 

 south window of it is not circular, but is very grandly 

 painted. The lowest window in the little transept is 

 covered with vitrages, composed of very large figures. 

 . The Halle aitx Bled, near the market place, has a 

 high turret, and has formerly been a church. 



The Maison de Ville is a singular piece of Gothic ar- 

 chitecture, situated on the north side of the market 

 place. It is two stories high, and has an arcade below 

 of seven pointed arches. On the second story there 

 are nine gothic windows. This is surmounted with an 

 ornamented ballustrade, and the front terminates with 

 three pediments, each of which is nearly an equilateral 

 triangle'. On the middle pediment a clock has, been 

 placed. There is a foundling hospital in the town, 

 which is a plain brick building. The country around 

 St. Quintin is in general bare. Though rich, the soil 

 is red and clayey, and there are great numbers of wind- 

 TOiills in the vicinity. 



This town has long been celebrated for its manufac- 

 tures of thread, linen, cambric, lawn, gauze, and cot* 

 ton; and it carries on a great export trade with 

 France, Holland, Germany, &c, The population of 



the toWn is about 11,000. The number of houses is 

 above 1 800. 



A full account of the magnificent canal of St Quin- 

 tin, will be found in our article on INLAND NAVJGA- s 

 TION, Vol. XV. p. 227. 



QUINTUS CURTIUS RUPUS, a Latin historian, 

 celebrated by his History of the .reign of Alexander 

 the Great, is supposed to have flourished in the reign 

 of Vespasian or Trajan. His work, which has been 

 admired for the elegance and purity of his style, is 

 divided into ten books ; of which the first and second, 

 the end of the fifth> and the beginning of the sixth, are 

 lost. An elaborate supplement to this work has been 

 written by Freinshemius. The best editions are those 

 of Elzevir, Amsterdam, 1673, 8vo. ; of Snakenburg, 

 Lugd. Bat. '1724; and of Barbou, Paris, 1757. 



QUITO, the name of an extensive province of 

 South America, is bounded on the north by that of San- 

 ta Fe de Bogota, on the west by the Pacific, on the 

 south by Peru, and on the east by the Portuguese ter- 

 ritories. It is about 600 miles long from north to 

 south, and about 1800 broad. The population how- 

 ever is chiefly confined to the valley between the two 

 Cordilleras of the Andes, "which resembles a street when 

 compared with the whole extent of the country, which, 

 especially in the eastern governments, is thinly scat- 

 tered with missionary villages. 



The productions of Quito are extremely various, 

 owing to the variety of climate and of elevation which 

 it enjoys. The level and champaign districts produce 

 harvests of Indian corn in great abundance, while the 

 bottoms of deep cavities, enjoying a still warmer tem- 

 perature, are planted with sugar canes, from which 

 great quantities of sugar and rum are obtained. The 

 lands near the summits of the mountains, possessing 

 various temperatures, produce wheat, barley, potatoes, 

 and pot-herbs of all kinds. Above these plantations, 

 on the mountain plains, are fed numerous flocks of 

 sheep, the wool of which affords employment to a great 

 number of people. Some of the farmers rear cows 

 for the purpose of making butter and cheese, while 

 others breed cattle, and at the same time manufacture 

 cloth, baizes, and" serges. 



Although the climate varies very rapidly in this 

 country, and though in the course of half a day we may 

 pass from the heat of the torrid to the cold of the frigid 

 zone, yet in the same place vicissitudes seldom occur. 

 This equability of the climate in the same place, joined 

 to the great fertility of the soil, occasions a regular suc- 

 cession of the productions of the earth. No sooner are 

 the fruits matured, and the leaves begin to change 

 their colour, than fresh leaves, blossoms, and fruits ap- 

 pear on the same tree in their proper gradations ; and 

 as the same happens with regard to corn, the operations 

 of sowing and reaping are carried on at the same time. 

 The corn and fruits are here particularly excellent ; 

 and the beef, veal, mutton, pork, and poultry, are re- - 

 markably delicate and fine. 



The principal manufactures of Quito are cottons, 

 some of which are white, called Tucuyos, and others 

 striped, baizes and cloths, which find a ready market 

 at Lima. The interior provinces of Peru are thus sup- 

 plied with them in return for silver, gold, silver frin- 

 ges, wine, brandy, oil, copper, tin, lead, and quicksil- 

 ver. The agricultural productions of Quito, are chief- 

 ly consumed within the province, with the exception 

 of the wheat, a part of which is sent to Guayquil. The 

 quantity of cheese annually consumed within the pro- 



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