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of the country gentlemen, thus highly, through a 

 reflected interest, the latter in a political view ; and 

 the Baronet, from the known warm henevolence of 

 his heart (a feeling generally associated with genius), 

 towards his poor countrymen, to whom he supposes, 

 in the event of the country gentlemen being by any 

 means induced to stay at home, a part of the great 

 land revenue so unjustly vn-ung from the poor man's 

 labour would again devolve. 



It is amusing to observe with what a flow of ima- 

 gination Su* Walter shews off his friend's inventions 

 — inventions which have been practised with less or 

 more success, in a manner very similar, by almost 

 every planter of note, since the time of Nero. We 

 quote again : " The existence of the wonders, — so 

 we may call them, — which Sir Henry Steuart has 

 effected, being thus supported by the unexception- 

 able evidence of competent judges (a deputation 

 hy the Highland Society), what lover of natural 

 beauty can fail to be interested in his own detailed 

 account of the mode by which he has been able to 

 make vdngs for time ?" — " But although we have 

 found the system to be at once original, effectual, 

 and attended with moderate expense, we are not 

 sanguine enough to hope that it will at once find 



