Editorial note — Chapter XIII · THE PASTORAL PROVINCES
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[Footnote 1: It was when he was at this work that Dr. Garnett pictures him so vividly—"the sanguine, enthusiastic projector, fertile, inventive creator, his head an arsenal of expedients and every failure pregnant with a remedy, imperious or suasive as suits his turn; terrible in wrath or exuberant in affection; commanding, exhorting, entreating, as like an eminent personage of old he
"With head, hands, wings or feet pursues his way, And swims, or wades, or sinks, or creeps, or flies."]