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hand of nature only is impreffed. The foreft, 

 like other beautiful fcenes, pleafes the eye ; but 

 it's great effect is to roufe the imagination. 



The word for eft immediately fuggefts the 

 idea of a continued uninterrupted tract of woody 

 country. But forefts in general are much more 

 varied. They confift indeed of tra6ls of woody 

 country : but thefe tracts are, at the fame 

 time intermixed with patches of pafturage, 

 which commonly bear the fame proportion to 

 the woods of the foreft, which lawns do to 



the clumps of a park. Thefe intermingled 



fcenes of wood, and pafturage, are again divid- 

 ed from other intermixtures of the fame kind, 

 by wide heaths, which are fometimes bounded 

 by a naked line of horizon j but more fre- 

 quently fkirted with wood. This intermixture 

 of wood and pafturage, with large feparations 

 of heath, give a variety to the foreft, which a 

 boundlefs continuance of woody fcenery could 

 not exhibit : tho it muft be acknowledged, 

 that in many forefts, particularly in New- 

 foreft, thefe tracts of heathy country are often 

 larger, than picturefque beauty requires. 



Having given this general idea of the fpecies 

 of country, which I mean to treat under 



the 



