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with fome c old tint or when the fun rife 5 

 or when it foines full at noon or when 

 it Jets or laftly, when the day is jlormy, 

 Each of thefe different ftates of the weather 

 admits much variation : but as it would be 

 endlefs to trace thefe variations into detail, 

 I fhall take notice only of the general effefts 

 of each; and of thefe merely as they affect 

 the foreft. In other works of this kind I 

 have touched upon thefe fources of incidental 

 beauty, as they affect lakes, and moun- 

 tains*. 



The calm, overcaft, foft, day, fuch as 

 thefe climates often produce in the beginning 

 of autumn, hazy, mild, and undifturbed, 

 affords a beautiful medium; fpreading over 

 the woods a fweet, grey, tint, which is ef- 

 pecially favourable to their diftant appearances. 

 The internal parts of the foreft receive little 

 advantages from this hazy medium : but the 

 various tuftings of diftant woods, are won- 

 derfully foftened by it; and many a form,' 

 and many a hue, which in the full glare 

 of fun-fhine would be harfh, and difcordant, 



* See obfervations on the lakes of Cumberland, and High- 

 lands of Scotland. 



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