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In the beechen grove you feek in vain for 

 this variety. In the early autumn indeed you 

 fee it, when the extremities only of the tree 

 are juft tinged with oker : but as the year 

 advances, the eye is generally fatigued with one 

 deep monotony of orange ; tho among all the 

 hues of autumn, it is in itfelf perhaps the 

 moft beautiful. The painter imitates it the 

 moft happily by a touch of terra de Sienna. 

 But the eye is palled even with beauty in 

 profufion, and calls for contraft. 



The fame uniformity reigns, tho of a dif- 

 ferent hue, when am, or elm prevails. No 

 fading foliage indeed of any one kind that I 

 know, produces harmony, except that of the 

 oak. 



The hues however of the diftant foreft, when 

 moft difcordant, are often harmonized by the 

 intervening trees on the foreground. We can 

 bear the glow of the diftant beech-wood, 

 when it is contrafted at hand by a fpreading 

 oak, whofe foliage hath yet fcarce loft it's 

 fumnrer-tint or by an elm, or an afh, whofe 

 fading leaves have aiuamed a yellowilh hue. 



But after all, the autumnal foreft is an 

 inftrument eafity untuned. One frofty night, 

 or parching blaft, may introduce fome ftrik- 



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