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have the effect of other woods ; for the trees, 

 of which it is formed, need not be feparated 

 from each other, as they often are in the copfe; 

 but being well mafled together, may receive 



beautiful effects of light. When we enter 



if s receffes, it is not fo well calculated to 

 pleafe. There, it wants variety ; and that 

 not only from the fmoothnefs of the furface j 

 but from the uniformity of the furniture at 

 leaft if it be an artificial fcene ; in which the 

 trees, having been planted in a nurfery, grow 

 all alike, with upright ftems. And yet a 

 walk, upon a velvet turf, winding at pleafure 

 among thefe natural columns, whofe twitting 

 branches at leaft admit fome variety, with a 

 fpreading canopy of foliage over the head, 

 is pleafing; and in hot weather, refrefhing. 

 Sometimes we find the open-grove of natural 

 growth. It is then more various, and irregular, 

 and becomes of courfe, a more pleafing fcene. 

 And yet when woods of this kind continue, 

 as they fometimes do, in unpeopled countries, 

 through half a province, they become tirefome; 

 and prove that it is not wood, but variety of 

 landfcape, that delights the eye. 



Sometimes the grove, in the neighbourhood 

 of great houfes, demands a little embellifhment, 



and 



