*David McNally* # Progressive Summary # Definitions # Chapter Notes ## Planting and Profit > The new practices of surveying, mapping, enclosing, appropriating, and privatizing were rendered intelligible in the lexicon of anatomy. To anatomize, after all, was to dissect, study, label, and map. The fact that anatomy was routinely performed on the corpses of paupers and criminals made it all the more readily transferable to colonial others. Thus, Fynes Moryson, secretary to the commander of the English army in Ireland, titled a 1615 essay “The Anatomy of Ireland.” Forty years later, during the Cromwellian conquest of Ireland, William Petty, who in 1655–56 produced the first survey of Irish lands, also wrote a Political Anatomy of Ireland, published posthumously. English colonizers came to anatomize Ireland, to chop it up, to dissect it, the better to own it. In 1641, before Petty joined Cromwell’s Irish adventure, 61 percent of all Irish lands were in the hands of Catholics; by 1704 Catholics held a mere 14 percent. Everywhere colonial surveyors went, dispossession followed. Perhaps fittingly, George Washington got his start as a surveyor in the colonial United States. In short order he became an accomplished Indian hunter, slaveowner, and planter capitalist. # Quotes # References