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THE INFLUENCE OF GEOLOGICAL STRUCTURE 
ON SCENERY. 
By J. D. KENDALL, .C.E., F.G.S. 
(Read at Whitehaven, Carlisle, Maryport, and Workington. ) 
THE love of Scenery appears to us nowadays to be so natural—so 
much a part of our zsthetic constitution—that we are apt without 
further thought to look upon it as 
** An ingredient in the compound man, 
Infused at the creation of the kind.” 
Upon inquiry, however, we find that this is not the case, but, 
on the contrary, it turns out that—like many other of man’s 
characteristics which, for some reason or other, he would like to 
persuade himself have not been recently acquired—his love of 
scenery is but of comparatively modern growth. It will scarcely 
be disputed, I should think, that wherever or at whatever time 
there has existed a love of scenery, some record of it will be found 
in the works of either the poets or painters—or perhaps of both— 
_ who lived at that particular time and place. But the history of 
painting is almost silent on the subject of landscapes until within 
the last hundred or hundred and fifty years ; and after having seen 
_ some of the older productions of the easel, we are not surprised 
that it should be so. The Louvre in Paris probably contains some 
_ of the finest specimens of the Old Masters that are to be found 
anywhere, yet in that splendid collection, there is almost an entire 
_ absence of landscapes; you go wandering on from corridor to 
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