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cascade is seen tumbling down that hill through these 

 woods, it becomes still more enlivened. 



I have been told, that in the dreariest situations 

 in SWITZERLAND, some of the gentlemen have, by 

 the management of water, given a beauty to the face 

 of their country, which our gayest gardens have not. 

 Auy one will be ready to believe this, who has gone 

 through the walk of essen hossen. In the lower 

 part of the walk, there have been great stones thrown 

 of design into the brook; in the upper part there 

 have been none : the consequence of this difference 

 is, that the under part is infinitely more animated and 

 agreeable than the upper part. 



The two best landscape painters in the world, 

 NICOLAS PoussiN and salvator ROSA, both 

 delighted in painting the great scenes of nature, but 

 they took different routes, salvator rosa chose 

 terrible and noble natural situations ; but his firs were 

 scathed with thunder, or blown over by storms ; 

 his grass was arid ; his streams not rushing down hills, 

 but stagnant in pools; no view of houses, nor scarce 

 any of life, was to be seen : a raven perched on the 

 trunk of a tree, a magician under the shade of a 

 mountain, the murder of a traveller amidst rocks by 

 robbers, were the only signs of life in his landscapes. 

 l*oussiN, on the other hand, added all the beauty 

 of verdure, all the vivaciiy of water, to his great situ- 

 ations ; and interspersed amongst them not only living 

 objects, but at the bottoms and on the sides of the 

 hills, views of temples and palaces of a Babylonish 

 architecture, which by their uncouth appearance cor- 

 responded to tlie sentiment he means to create. In 

 the situation of the one we can suppose a philosopher 

 or a hero to have lived ; the s>ituations of the other, 

 we cannot suppose any thing but a demon to have 

 inhabited. Perhaps the landscapes of poussin are 

 the best instructors which a gardener of genius and 

 taste can follow, for this first branch of the natural 

 division of grounds. 



