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SECTION IX. 



HAVING thus confidered what may pro- 

 perly be called the permanent beauties of 

 diftantforeft-fcenery^ we proceed to it's incidental 

 beauties. Thefe arife principally from two 

 caufes; the weather, and the feafons. As 

 both are changeable, they both produce 

 various appearances. The former affects 

 chiefly \hejky : the latter, the earth. 



The weather is a fruitful fource of in- 

 cidental beauty ; and there are few ftates 

 of it, which do not imprefs fome peculiar 

 and picturefque character on landfcape, to 



which it gives the leading tint. A country 



is chiefly affected by the weather, when it 

 is hazy^ and mijly or when the iky is inverted 



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