deavour by amplification, to make the ideas 

 contained under it, as diftincl: as I can. 



We diftinguifh then two kinds of clumps ; 

 the fmaller, and the larger ; confining the 

 former chiefly to the foreground ; and con- 

 fidering the latter as the ornament of a dif- 

 tance. 



With regard to the fmaller clump, it's chief 

 beauty arifes from contraft in the parts. We 

 have feen that in Jingle frees, each muft have 

 it's characteriftic beauty. It has nothing elfe 

 to depend on. But in combination, the beauty 

 of the individual is not required -, the whole 

 clump together muft produce the effecl:. 



To enumerate all the fources of beautiful 

 contraft, which contribute to produce this 

 effecl:, might be difficult. I (hall curforily 

 fuggeft a few. 



In the firft place the relative fituation of 

 trees, with regard to each other, fhould be 

 confidered. Three trees, or more, (landing in 

 a line, are formal. In the natural wood, you 



rarely fee this formality. And yet even 



three trees in a line will be greatly aflifted by 

 the different directions of the feveral trunks; 



and 



