fandy bank, or a piece of rocky ground may 

 prevent the contiguity of trees, and fo make 

 an opening; or a tree or two may have been 

 blafted, or have been cut down; or, what is 

 the happieft of all circumftances, a winding 



road may run through the wood. The fimple 



idea, which is varied among all thefe little 

 recefles, is the exhibition of a few trees, feen 

 behind others. The varieties of this mode 

 of fceneiy, fimple as it is, are infinite. Na- 

 ture is wonderfully fertile. The invention of 

 the painter may form a compofttion more agree- 

 able to the rules of his art, than nature com- 

 monly produces : but no invention can reach 

 the varieties of particular objetts. 



Waterlo delighted in thefe c/ofe fcreft-fcenes. 

 He penetrated their retreats; and when he 

 found a little opening, or recefs, that pleafed 

 him, he fixed it on the fpot. He ftudied it's 

 various forms how the bold protuberances of 

 an old trunk received the light, and fhade 

 how eafily the large boughs parted ; and how 

 negligently the fmaller were interwoven how 

 elegantly the foliage hung; and what va- 

 rious fhapes it's little tuftings exhibited. All 

 thefe things he obferved, and copied with 

 exacl attention. His landfcape, bare of objects, 



and 



