SECTION VI. 



.HAVING thus confidered various kinds of 

 woody fcenery, and traced the peculiar beau- 

 ties of each; we proceed next to the foreft, 

 which in a manner comprehends them all. 

 There are few extenfive forefts, which do not 

 contain, in fome part or other, a fpecimen of 

 every fpecies of woody-landfcape. The wild 

 foreft-view indeed differs effentially from the 

 embellifhed one; tho fometimes we find even 

 the foreft-lawn in a polifhed ftate, when 

 browzed by deer into a fine turf, and fur- 

 rounded by {lately woods. Beauty however 

 is not the charafterftic of the foreft. It's 

 peculiar diftinction is grandeur, and dignity. 

 The fcenes we have hitherto confidered, are 

 all within the reach of art ; and in fact, have 

 all been the objects of improvement. But the 

 foreft difdains all human culture. On it the 



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