fun; tho their characters are very different, 

 both in the lights, and fhadows. The ruddy 

 lights indeed of the evening are more eafily 

 diftinguiihed : but it is not perhaps always fuf- 

 ficiently obferved, that the fhadows of the 

 evening are much lefs opaque, than thofe of 

 the morning. They may be brightened per- 

 haps by the numberlefs rays floating in the 

 atmofphere, which are incefTantly reverberated 

 in every direction j and may continue in action 

 after the fun is fet. Whereas in the morning, 

 the rays of the preceding day having fubfided, 

 no objecl: receives any light, but from the 

 immediate luftre of the fun. Whatever be- 

 comes of the theoiy, the fa6l, I believe, is 

 well afcertained 



The incidental beauties, which the meridian 

 fun exhibits, are much fewer than thofe- of 

 the rijing fun* In fummer, 'when he rides 

 high at noon, and fheds his perpendicular ray, 

 all is illumination: there is no fhadow to 

 balance fuch a glare of light j no contralt to 

 oppofe it. The judicious artift therefore rarely 

 reprefents his objects under a vertical fun. 

 And yet no fpecies of landfcape bears it fo well 

 as the fcenes of the foreft. The tuftings of 

 trees, which of all objects are the richeft, 



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