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sometimes rusliiiig for some little space with fury in 

 the straight line ; and at other times resting itself as 

 it were in the calmer curve. 



The chief natural defect of a highlandsituation 

 is that, behig generally ill inhabited, it has too much 

 the appearance of dead life : that appearance, added 

 to the vastness of the objects, creates a kind of des- 

 pair in the mind, which considers itself as nothing 

 amidst that stupendous and solitary scene it beholds. 

 In a cheerful situation it does not seem so necessary 

 to call the mind to objects of life ; the gay appear- 

 ance of the ground there, creates that enlivening sen- 

 timent, which in a highland situation must be bor- 

 rowed from the introduction of objects of life. We 

 think with a kind of pleasure of living in juan fer- 

 NANDES, or TINIAN ; though there was not a living 

 soul in the islands ; but we think with horror of living 

 all alone in the pass of killicranky, or the braes 



of LOCHABER. 



For this reason all the improvements made upon 

 natural objects, and all the objects of art brought 

 into such a garden, ought to have a relation to, and 

 call the mind to a remembrance of, living objects. 



In this hght, the view of the castle on the top of 

 DUNEQUECK, at INVERARY, has d much finer etiect 

 than that of a ruin in such a place could have had ; 

 and the thought of the building over the spring, in 

 the way to essen hossen, which has a relation to 

 upland life, has a much better effect than even a tem- 

 ple in such a place to any imaginary deity could have. 



For the same reason, in such a situation, what- 

 ever buildings are erected should be in conspicuous 

 places, to create a notion of life and populousness ; 

 and to make them still more observable, they should 

 be of a very white colour, and supported by a body 

 of green behind, to give them the more relief. 



Though the httle finishings of art on the face of 

 the ground, would in such a situation be lost ; yet 

 the great efforts of art would please, because that 

 very art is a sign of cultivation and populousness. 



