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In diftant landfcape, the copfe hath feldom 

 any effect. The beauty of wood, in a diftant 

 view, arifes, in fome degree, from it's tuftings, 

 which break, and inrich the lights but chiefly 

 from it's contraft with the plain and from 

 the grand fhapes, and forms, occafioned by 

 the retiring and advancing parts of the 

 foreft, which produce vaft marTes of light and 

 fhade ; and give erFe6l to the whole. 



Thefe beauties appear rarely in the copfe. 

 Inftead of that rich and tufted bed of foliage, 

 which the diftant foreft exhibits, the copfe 

 prefents a meagre, and unaccommodating fur- 

 face. It is age, which gives the tree it's 

 tufted form ; and the foreft, it's effect. A 

 nurfery of faplins produce it not; and the 

 copfe is little more.. Nor does the intermix- 

 ture of full^-grown trees aflift the appearance. 

 Their clumpy heads blend ill with the fpiry 

 tops of the juniors. Neither have they any 

 connection with each other. The wood- man's 

 judgment is fliewn in leaving the timber-trees 

 at proper intervals, that they may neither 

 hinder each other's growth, nor the growth 

 of the underwood. But the wood-man does 

 not pretend to manage his trees with a view 

 to picturefque beauty ; and from his manage- 

 ment 



