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SECTION XI. 



XERHAPS of all fpecies of landfcape, there 

 is none, which fo univerfally captivates man- 

 kind, as foreft-fcenery : and our prepofleflion 

 in favour of it appears in nothing more, 

 than in this j that the inhabitants of bleak 

 countries, totally deftitute of wood, are gene- 

 rally confidered, from the natural feelings of 

 mankind, as the. objects of pity. 



Pliny has given us a view of this kind, 

 which he tells us, he took himfelf upon the 

 fpot. It reprefents a bleak fea-coaft in Zea- 

 land, before that country was embanked j 

 the inhabitants of which he fpeaks of as the 

 moft wretched of human beings. It is true, 

 there are other wants, befides that of fcenery, 

 which enter into the idea of their wretched- 

 nefs j yet I dare affirm, that if Pliny had 

 found the fame people, with all their wants 



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