STUDY XI. 23I 



meadows, and the azure of the Heavens with the 

 verdure of the heights. Thus, by means of this 

 light and fugitive tint, Nature diffufes delicious 

 harmonies over the limits of the waters, and along 

 the profiles of landfcapes ; and it is productive of 

 a (till farther magic to the eye, in that it gives 

 greater apparent depth to the valleys, and more 

 elevation to the mountains» 



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Something more wonderful ftill challenges our 

 attention, namely this, that though ihe employs 

 but one fingle colour in arraying fo many plants, 

 [he extracts out of it a quantity of tints fo prodi- 

 gious, that each of thofe plants has it's own, pe- 

 culiar to itfelf, and which detaches it fuffkiently 

 from it's neighbour to be diftinguifhable from it 5 

 and each of thefe tints is varying, from day to day, 

 from the commencement of Spring, when moft of 

 them exhibit themfelves in a bloody verdure up to 

 the laft days of Autumn, when they are trans- 

 formed into various yellows. 



Nature, after having thus harmonized the ground 

 of her picture, by means of a general colour, has 

 detached from it every vegetable in particular, by 

 means of contrafts. Such as are defigned to grow 

 immediately on the ground, on ftrands, or on 

 du/ky rocks, are entirely green, leaves and Rems, 

 #s the greateft part of reeds, of gralles, of moffes, 



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