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time it fhould not be fuch a fweep, as difcovers 

 one fide plainly overbalanced. 



On bleak fea-coafts, trees generally take an 

 unbalanced form : and indeed in general, fome 

 foreign caufe muft operate to occafion it ; for 

 nature working freely, is as much inclined to 

 balance a tree upon its trunk, as an animal 

 upon its legs. . 



And yet in fome circumftances, I have feen 

 beauty arife even from an unbalanced tree; 

 but it muft arife from, fome peculiar fituation, 

 which gives it a local propriety. A tree, for 

 inftance, hanging from a rock, though totally 

 unpoifed, may be beautiful : or it may have a 

 good effecl, when we fee it bending over a 

 road j becaufe it correfponds with its peculiar 

 fituation. We do not, in thefe cafes, admire 

 it as a tree ; but as the adjunct of an effecl: $ 

 the beauty of which does not give the eye 

 leifure to attend to the deformity of the inftru- 

 ment, through which the effecl: is produced. 



Without thefe requifites therefore, 

 (ightnefs, and a proper balance, no tree can 

 have that fpecies of beauty^ which we call 



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