tage through this medium. Sometimes thefe 



mifts are partial; and if they happen to 

 coincide with the compofition of the landfcape^ 

 this partiality is attended with peculiar beauty. 

 I have remarked in other works of this 

 kind*, that when fome huge promontory 

 emerges from a Spreading mift, which hangs 

 over one part of it, it not only receives the 

 advantage of contraft^ but it alfo becomes 

 an objecl: of double grandeur. We often fee 

 the woods of the foreft alfo with peculiar 

 advantage, emerging through a mift in the 

 fame ftile of greatnefs. I have known like- 

 wife a nearer dijlance^ Jhimgfy illumined^ 

 produce a good efFe6t through a light drizzling 

 fhower. 



Nearly allied to mifts is another incidental 

 appearance, that of fmoke, which is often 

 attended with peculiar beauty in woody fcenes. 

 When we fee it fpreading in the foreft 

 glade, and forming a foft bluifti back-ground 

 to the trees, which intercept it ; their 

 foliage, and ramification appear to great ad- 

 vantage. 



* See observations on Scotland, v. ii. p. 174. 



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