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fo much, that the eye is never fatigued with 

 furveying them j while the whole together 

 prefents one vaft, fublime objecl:. Like a 

 grand gallery of exquifite pictures, it fills the 

 ye with all it's greatnefs ; while the objefts, 

 on each fide, continually changing, afford at 

 every ftep a new entertainment. 



A late traveller through Ruflia does not 

 fee thefe beauties in a foreft-vifta. " The 

 country, fays he, through which we paffed. 

 was ill-calculated to alleviate our fufferings by 

 transferring our attention from ourfelves to the 

 objects around us. The road ran, as ftrait 

 as an arrow, through a perpetual foreft. 

 Through the dreary extent of a hundred and 

 ten miles, the gloomy uniformity was only 



broken by a few folitary villages." No 



doubt the continuation of a hundred and ten 

 miles in any one mode offcenery may be rather 

 fatiguing : but I fhould have thought, that 

 few modes of fcenery were better calculated 

 to transfer the attention from a difagreeable 

 fubject. I know not indeed what the nature 

 of a vifta through a Ruffian foreft may be ; 

 but if it partake of the circumftances that I 

 have juft been defcribing, in this vifta through 

 New-for-eft, it muft confift of varieties, which 



could 



