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But the leafy for eft is not folely the object of 

 incidental beauty. The pifturefque eye finds great 

 amufement even in it's wintry-fcenes j when it 

 has thrown it's rich mantle afide, and appears 

 to the common eye naked, and deformed. 



The hazy fun-mine of a frofly morning, 

 is accompanied with an indiftinctnefs peculiar 

 to itfelf. The common hazinefs of a fum- 

 mer-day fpreads over the landfcape one general 

 grey tint j and as we have had occafion to 

 remark in different circumftances, is often 

 the fource of great beauty. But the effect we 

 are here obferving, is of a different kind. It is 

 generally more partial more rich and mix- 

 ing with ftreaks of different coloured clouds, 

 which often form behind it, produces a very 

 pleafing effect. The cafe is, the fun is lower 

 in the horizon, and produces an effect, which 

 a meridian fun cannot do. 



Great beauty alfo arifes in winter from the 

 different tints of the fpray. The dark brown 

 fpray of the birch, for inftance, has a good effect, 

 among that of a lighter tinge : and when the 

 foreft is deep, all this little bufhinefs of ramifi- 

 cation hath, in fome degree, the effect of foliage. 



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