PLANTING. 



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fear of the award of the authority with which 

 I am at present more immediately at vari- 

 ance, as I trust it will be obvious that the 

 objections he has urged are not against the 

 irregular outline, but against the conceit and 

 ignorance he has seen manifested in its ap- 

 plication. 



The author of the Planter's Guide is not, 

 I think, entitled to the support he assumes 

 from the " late powerful writer " whom he 

 quotes ; and who, but for the term late, might 

 be identified with the equally powerful writer 

 from whom we have just parted. The passage 

 on which he rests occurs in the Review of 

 Monteith's Planter's Guide.* I have already 

 given Sir H. Steuart's version of it ; but, as 

 the true bearing of the passage is not, I 

 think, contained in that version, I beg leave 

 to transcribe the whole passage itself, as most 

 essential to the question before us. 



The Review, having given some useful 

 hints for providing the necessary plants, pro- 

 ceeds : " Thus provided with the material of 

 " his enterprise, and with the human force 

 " necessary to carry it into effect, the planter's 



# See Quarterly Review, vol. xxxvi. 

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