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SECTION VIII. 



A HE permanent beauties of a diftant woody 

 fcene arife firft from it's form. There is as 

 much variety in the form of a diftant wood, 

 as in that of a fingle tree. We fometimes fee 

 continuous woods ftretching along the horizon 

 without any break. All feems of equal 

 growth j the fummit of the wood is con- 

 tained under one ftrait line. This, except 

 in very remote diftance, is formal, heavy, and 

 difgufting. The fhape of diftant woods is 

 then only picturefque, when it is broken by 

 a varied line. This variation is, in fome degree 

 occafioned by the different fizes of trees j but as 

 the lize of trees, where the diftance is great, 

 has little effect, it is chiefly, and moft eflentially 

 occafioned by the inequalities of the ground. 



A regular line at the bafe of a long range of 

 woody-fcenery, is almoft as difgufting as at 



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