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and, on the fide next to me, had fome projefting curves, but 

 in fuch a manner that tlie row foenied uninterrupted and 

 continued. 



The fird thing that ftruck me n:< I defoended, was, that at 

 the bottom of this row of trees, and near the extremity 

 which was oppofite lo me, there appeared an aperture where 

 tliere Teemed to be no trees, and where I thought I could per- 

 ceive the heavens under a hne of trees which I conlidered as 

 further dirtant, becaufe their colour was not fo dark, and 

 becaufe thcv appeared fmaller than the trees of the firlt row 

 between which I fiiu- them. This feparated part of the row 

 feeniod to be completelv floatintx in the air; the horizon in 

 the interval of the trees of the fTrlt row was bounded bv the 

 furface of the turf moor, and I imagined that I faw the hea- 

 vens between this extreme furface of the moor and the row 

 of the moft didant trees. 



It was at tiiis moment T alighted : I then turned back, af- 

 cended the hill a little, and faw the trees which attrafted my 

 attention gradually alTume their former appearance. The 

 whole feparated part again funk down to the earth, recovered 

 their former dark colour, and alfo their former height; fo 

 that I was fcarcelv able to diftinguifli this part from the re- 

 mainder of the row. Some traces, however, of the former 

 transformation remained. I was therefore induced to examine 

 the whole row throughout with the greateii attention ; and, oil 

 doing fo, I imagined that I obferved fome parts which lav a 

 hitle more in the back ground, and which, as 1 conjeAured 

 from certain figns, would appear transformed in the like 

 manner when viewed from a fomewliat low point of iight. 

 Jn regard to the loweft ground line of the row of trees, it 

 appeared, on account of the dirtance and thicknefs of the 

 atmofphcre, t(jo undetuied to perceive bcndings in it: f was 

 not able to obferve the trunks of the trees, which I dilVmguifli- 

 ed from the furface of the moor merely bv its brown colour 

 being rendered Icfs pale by the intervening (h-atum of air, 

 bv the trees having a higher pofition, and bv iheir being leen 

 throu<:h apurer itratum of the atmofphcre. On again deicend- 

 innr, I faw thofe parts of the row which I confidered as the 

 moll remote, gradually raife themfelves above the horizontal 

 ))lain ; fo tli;it they leparated themfelves from the row in 

 wiiich they Itood, and feemed to (loat in the air behind the 

 row whicfi nf)w liad the apjiearance ot bein ■ broken. When 

 I reached the vallcv, where I was however fomewhat elevated 

 above the level of the moor, thcfe pha-nomena began to 

 appear in the foremoll row, where the fuli l)reakiug appeared. 

 I dguin thought I faw the lieavens below the trees at the ex- 

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