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often produced from an acre. The timber, like that of the 

 other parts of the province, confiils of oak, elm, hiccory, 

 maple, &c. The bay is narrow tliroughout, and about 50 

 miles lonp;, through which diftance it is navigable for the 

 I'mall vefTels that are ufed on the lakes. It abounds with 

 wild fowl, and various kinds of fidi. The river Trent 

 affords a falmon fifhery. In palling from the head of the 

 bay of Quinte into lake Ontario, you crofs a fhort portage, 

 in front of the townfliip of Murray, being the ifthnuis 

 between it and the peninfula of Prince Edward. At the 

 «nd of the portage, and before you enter lake Ontario, is a 

 fmall but very beautiful lake, having very good land on its 

 banks. To the northward of this portage it has been pro- 

 pofed to make a canal for connedling the waters of tiie bay 

 with thofe of the lake. A little to the weltward of tiie 

 portage and propofed canal, is the harbour of Newcaitle, a 

 Situation well fuited for commerce and protection, and 

 fheltered from all winds. A knoll on the peninfula affords 

 a healthy fcitc for the town. 



QUINTILE, QuiNTiLis, in AJlronomy, an afpeft of 

 the planets, when they are feventy-two degrees diftant from 

 one another, or a fifth part of the zodiac. 



QUINTILIAN, Marcus Fabius, in B'tography, a ce- 

 lebrated teacher of eloquence, was born about the year 42 

 of the Chriftian era, during the reign of the emperor Clau- 

 dius. He is fuppofed to have defcended from a family ori- 

 ginally Spanifh, but that his father, or grandfather, had 

 fettled in Rome. The place of his birth is not known, but 

 it feems certain that he was educated in that capital, where 

 he ftudied rhetoric under Domitius Afer, a celebrated 

 orator. He opened a fchool at Rome, and was the firil 

 who obtained a falary from the flate as a public teacher. 

 After he had remained twenty years in this laborious em- 

 ployment, and obtained the applaufe of the mofl illuflrious 

 Romans, not merely as a preceptor, but as a pleader at the 

 bar, Quintilian retired to enjoy the fruits of his labours and 

 jnduilry. In his retirement he alTiduouny devoted his time 

 to the fludy of literature, and wrote a treatife on the 

 " Caufes of the Corruption of Eloquence." Some time 

 after, he wrote his " Inflitutiones Oratorije," the moil 

 perfeA and complete fyftem of oratory extant. It is, in 

 truth, one of the mofl valuable remains of antiquity. It 

 was compofed for the ufe of his fon, vvhofe ei^rly death he 

 had occafion to deplore, and is an inititute for the education 

 of an orator, whom he takes up from the cradle, and con- 

 dudls through all the periods of inftruciion to the exercife of 

 his proper art. It accordingly contains many excellent pre- 

 cepts with refpeft to education in general, efpecially the 

 early parts of it, which are applicable in all times and 

 countries, as being founded on the nature of the mind. The 

 ftyle of Quintilian is faid, by critics, to exhibit tokens of 

 the deterioration of the Latin tongue ; but, on the other 

 hand, it mufl be obferved, that every deviation from the 

 ufage of the Augultan age has been too readily regarded as 

 a depravation. Quintilian was appointed preceptor to the 

 two young princes whom Domitian deflined for his fucceflbrs 

 on the throne ; but the celebrity which the rhetorician re- 

 ceived from the favours and attention of the emperor, and 

 from the fucceis which his writings met with in the world, 

 were embittered by the lofs of his wife, and of his two fons, 

 one of whom he defcribes as a prodigy of early excellence. 

 It is faid that Quintilian was poor in his retirement, and that 

 his indigence was relieved by the liberality of his pupil, 

 Pliny the younger. He is fuppofed to have died about the 

 year 95. His "Inflitutiones" were difcovered in the year 

 1415, in an old tower of a monaftery at St. Gall, by Poggio 

 Bracchiolini. The treatife on the " Caufes and Corruption 

 Vol. XXIX. 



of Eloquence" ha« not conic down to us. The name of 

 Quintilian is afHxed to certain «' Declamations," of which 

 there are 19 of moderate length ; but ;.s the flyle, method, 

 and manner, are totally different from the ru'oe laid down in 

 the " Inllitutiones," no good judges attribute them to the 

 name of Quintilian. Of the editioiF, of Quintilian fome of 

 tiie mofl valuable are thofe of Gefucr, 410. Getting. 1738 ; 

 of Lug. Batavorum, 8vo. cum notls variorum, 1665; of 

 Gibfon, 4to. 0x011. 1693; and that c,f RoUin, re-piiblifhed 

 in London in 1792. There is an Englifli tranflatioa by Mr. 

 Guthrie. 



QUINTILIANS, Quintilian/, in Ecclefuifual Hlflory, 

 a fe£l of ancient heretics, the fame with the Pepuzians j 

 thus called from their prophetcfs Quiiitilia. 



In this feci, the women were admitted to perform the 

 facerdotal and cpifcopal fundlioiis ; grounding their pradlice 

 on that palfage of St. Paul to the Galatians, where he fays, 

 " That in Chrifl there is no diflinftion of males and females." 



In their affemblics, it was ufual to fee the virgins enter 

 in white robes, perfonating the proplietelfes. The Quin- 

 tilians bore fome refemblance to the modern Quakers. 



QUINTILIS, in Chronology. See July. 



QUINTIN, or Quint, in Commerce. See Quentin. 



QuiNTiN, in Geogrnphy, ,?L town of France, in the de- 

 partment of the Northern Coafls, and chief place of a can- 

 ton, in the diflridl of St. Brieuc ; nine miles S.W. of St. 

 Brieuc. The place contains 3976, and the canton 12,510 

 inhabitants, on a territory of 1475 kiliometres, in eight 

 communes. 



QUINTINIE, John de la, in Biography, famous for 

 his flcill in horticulture, was born at Poiftiers in 1626. He 

 received a learned education, and wa^ brought up to the pro- 

 fcffion of the law, in which he gained reputation as a pleader 

 at the bar. A pallion for agricultural knowledge led him 

 to fludy, with great attention, all the authors, ancient and 

 modern, upon that topic ; and on a vifit to Italy as tutor to 

 a youth, he made great additions to his knowledge from 

 adlual obfervation. On his return he devoted himfelf almoft 

 entirely to experiments on the culture of trees and plants, 

 and made many difcoveries which greatly improved the art 

 of gardening. He was the firfl perfon who laid down jufl 

 principle? of the art of pruning fruit-trees. He alfo re- 

 marked that a tranfplanted tree grew only by the new roots 

 which it threw out, and that the old fibres were ufelefs, and 

 ought to be cut off. It does not appear at what time he 

 began to follow gardening as a profeflion, but he had cer- 

 tainly acquired a high degree of reputation in it when he 

 was invited to England by Charles II. who offered him 

 a confiderable penfion to engage him in his fervice. He 

 twice vifited London, and a paper of his was publiflied in 

 the Philofophical Tranfaftions, on the culture of melons. 

 He was made, by Lewis XIV., diredlor-general of the 

 gardens in all the royal palaces. In 1690 he publifhed 

 " Inftrudlions pour les Jardins Fruitieis et Potagers," which 

 obtained a high degree of popularity, was frequently re- 

 printed, and was tranflated into feveral modern languages. 

 The lafl edition was entitled " Parfait Jardinier," in two 

 vols. 4to. The author died at Paris in the year 1700. 



QUINTO, in Geography, a town of Spain, in Arragon ; 

 20 miles S.E. of Saragolfa. 



QUINTUS Calaber, in Biography, a Greek poet, 

 who wrote a fupplem.ent to Homer's Iliad, in 14 books, in 

 which a relation is given of the Trojan war from the death 

 of Hedlor to the dellruftion of Troy. He is fuppofed, 

 from the ilyle of his work, to have lived in the fifth cen- 

 tury, but nothing certain can be colledled concerning his 

 perfon and country. His poem was firil made known by 

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