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indulge. The defcriber imagines that his 

 own feelings of a natural fcene can be conveyed 

 by warm expreffions. Whereas nothing but 

 the fcene itjelfcan convey his feelings. Loofe 

 ideas (not truth, but verifimilitude) is all that 

 verbal defcription pretends to convey; and 

 this is not to be done by high colouring ; but 

 to be aimed at by plain, appropriate, intelli- 

 gible terms. 



I fhould add, before I leave this pleafmg 

 vifta, that to fee it in perfection, a ftrong 

 fun-mine is neceffary. Even a meridian fun, 

 which has a better effecl on the woods of the 

 foreft, than on any other fpecies of landfcape *, 

 is not perhaps too ftrong for fuch a fcene as 

 this. It will rarely happen, but that one 

 fide, or the other of the vifta will be in 

 ihadow ; and this circumftance alone will 

 produce contrails, which will be highly 



agreeable. I may add alfo, that this vifta 



appears to much greater advantage, as we rife 

 through it to Lyndhurft, than as we defcend 

 to Brokenhurft. 



As we paHTed this vifta, we faw, in many 

 parts through the trees, on the left, the pales 



* See vol. i. page 252. 



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