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SECTION III. 



TROM fcenes of art, let us haften to the 

 chief objeft of our purfuit, the wild fcenes 

 of nature the wood the copfe the glen 

 and open-grove, 



Under the term wood, we include every 

 extenfive combination of foreft-trees, in a flat e 

 of nature. All fuch combinations, tho without 

 the privilege of forefts, compofe the fame kind 

 of fcenery. The defcription therefore of fuch 

 fcenes will come moft properly under the head 

 of for eft-views > on which we fhall hereafter 

 dwell at large. At prefent let us examine the 

 fmaller combinations ; and firft the copfe. 



The copfe is a fpecies of fcenery compofed 

 commonly of foreft-trees intermixed with brufh- 

 wood ; which latter is periodically cut down 

 in twelve, thirteen, or fourteen years. In it's 

 difmantled ftate therefore, nothing can be more 

 forlorn than the copfe. The area is covered 



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