STUDY I. lOI 



In order to be convinced how agreeable it is, 

 let us conftruâ:, in conformity to our method, 

 any group, with the fîtes, the vegetables, and the 

 animals, moft commonly to be found in our Cli- 

 mates. Let us fuppofe a foil the moft obdurate, 

 a craggy protuberance on the coaft, where a river 

 difgorges itfelf into the Ocean, prefenting a fteep 

 toward the fea, and a gentle declivity toward the 

 land : that, on the fide turned toward the fea, the 

 billows cover with foam rocks clothed with fea- 

 weed, fucufes, alga-marinas, of all colours, and of 

 all forms, green, brown, purple, in tufts and gar- 

 lands, as I have feen them on the coafts of Nor- 

 mandy, affixed to the rocks of white marl, which 

 the fea detaches from the main fliore. Let us far- 

 ther fuppofe, that, on the fide of the river, we fee 

 on the yellow fand, a fcanty verdure, mixed with 

 a little trefoil, and here and there a fprig of marine 

 wormwood. Let us introduce fome willows, not 

 like thofe which grow in our meadows, but the 

 native crop of the foil, and fimilar to thofe which 

 are to be icQix on the banks of the Spree, in the 

 vicinity of Berlin, with broad budiy tops, and 

 rifing to the height of more than fifty feet. Let 

 us not forget, in this arrangement, the harmony 

 of different ages, which it is fo agreeable to meet, 

 in every fpecies of aggregation, but efpecially in 

 that of vegetables. Let us obferve, of thefe wil- 

 lows fo fmooth and full of moiflurej fome pufliing 



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