PREFACE. 



crity of talents, this fuccefs infpired me with the 

 vanity of giving to my Work the title of, A Pic- 

 ture of Nature. Happily for me, I recolle6led to 

 what a degree the nature of the climate in which I 

 received my birth was ftrange to me ; to what a 

 degree, in countries where I have contemplated 

 the produdions of Nature merely as a paflenger, 

 Ihe is rich, various, lovely, magnificent, myfte- 

 rious ; and to what a degree, I am deftitute of fa- 

 gacity, of tafte, and of expreffion, to know, and 

 to paint her. On this I checked my vanity, and 

 came to myfelf again. I have therefore compre- 

 hended this feeble effay under the name, and 

 placed it in the train, of my Studies of Nature, to 

 which the Public has granted a reception fo gra- 

 cious, in order that this title, recalling to them my 

 incapacity, may likewife preferve an everlafting re» 

 colledion of their own induleence. 



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