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when we have a fmgle tree, we wiih it to 

 be of the noblcft kind j and it mull be 

 confefled that in our paffage through this 

 vifla, which in every part as we pafs along 

 becomes a fore-ground, there is a great de- 

 ficiency of noble trees. Many of the oaks 

 are fcathed, and ragged j and tho in com- 

 pofition trees of this kind have frequently 

 their effect * ; yet in a rich foreft-fccne, if 

 they prefent themfelves too often, they offend. 

 For all the other purpofes of fceneiy how- 

 ever, and in all the more removed parts of this 

 vifta, inferior trees, if they be full grown, 

 anfwer tolerably well ; and when intermixed 

 with ftunted trees, and brufh-wood, as they are 

 in the wild parts of the foreft, they are more 

 beautiful, than if the whole fcene had been 

 compofed of trees of the ftatelieft order. 

 Interftices are better filled; and a more uni- 

 form whole is produced. Confidered in this 



light a foreft is a picture of the world. 

 We find trees of all ages, kinds, and degrees 

 the old, and the young the rich, and 

 the poor the ftately, and the depreffed 



* See vol. i. page 8. 



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