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like cords running along the banks, and binding 

 together the foil, forms a complete contrafh with 

 the extended mafs, the light foliage, the white- 

 ftreaked verdure, and the trundling roots of the 

 willow. Add to this the individuals of the alder, 

 of different ages, rifing like fo many verdant obe- 

 lifks, with their parafite plants, fuch as the maiden- 

 hair fpreading into ftars of verdure over the hu- 

 mid trunk, the long hart's-tongue hanging from 

 the boughs down to the ground, and the other ac- 

 ceffories of infeâs and fowls, and even of quadru- 

 peds, which, probably, contraft as to form, co- 

 lour, gait and inftind, with thofe of the willow ; 

 and we ihall have a delicious concert of vegetables 

 and animals, compofed of two trees only, together 

 with their accompaniments. 



If we illuminate our little plantation with the 

 firft rays of Aurora, we (hall behold, at once, 

 Ihades deep and fhades tranfparent, diffufed over 

 the verdure ; a duiky and a filvered verdure inter- 

 fedl each other, on the azure of the Heavens, and 

 their foft reflexes, blended together, moving along 

 the bofom of the waters. Let us, farther, fuppofe, 

 what neither poetry nor painting can pretend to 

 imitate, the odour of the plants, and even the 

 fmell of the fea, the ruftling of leaves, the hum- 

 ming of infefls, the matin-fong of the birds, the 

 hollow murmuring noife, intermixed with fiience, 



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