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this day a ftump of it is found in fome old 

 burying place j or near the circle of a Druid 

 temple, whofe rites it formerly inverted with 

 it's facred fhade. It's chief merit now confifts 

 in being the ornament of landfcape. In the 

 Scotifh highlands it becomes a conliderable 

 tree. There on fome rocky mountain covered 

 with dark pines, and waving birch, which 

 caft a folemn gloom over the lake below, a 

 few mountain-afhes joining in a clump, and 

 mixing with them, have a fine effect:. In 

 fummer, the light green tint of their foliage ; 

 and in autumn, the glowing berries, which 

 hang chartering upon them, contrail beauti- 

 fully with the deeper green of the pines ; 

 and if they are happily blended ; and not in 

 too large a proportion, they add fome of the 

 moil picturefque furniture, with which the 

 fides of thofe rugged mountains are inverted. 



After the oak, and am, we examine the 

 elm. The oak and the afh have each a dirtinct 

 character. The mafly form of the one, di- 

 viding into abrupt, twifting, irregular limbs, 

 yet compact in it's foliage ; and the eafy fweep 

 of the other, the fimplicity of it's branches, 



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