expect a fcene of this kind in fo retired 

 a place ; it feemed as if the adventurers, who 

 had failed up the river, had landed here either 

 to refit their fhips, or to build others for the 

 purpofe of purfuing their difcoveries. 



Miratur nemus infuetum fulgentia longe 

 Scuta virum fluvio, piftafque innare carinas. 



The idea of a wild country, in a natural 

 ftate, however picturefque, is to the generality 

 of people but an unpleafmg one. There are 

 few, who do not prefer the bufy fcenes of 

 cultivation to the grander!: of nature's rough 

 productions. In general indeed, when we 

 meet with a defcription of a pleafmg country, 

 we hear of hay-cocks, or waving corn-fields, 

 or labourers at their plough, or other cir- 

 cumftances and objects, which the picturefque 

 eye always wifhes to exclude. The cafe is, 

 the fpeclator fympathifes in the joys of a 

 country, which arife from the profpect of 

 plenty; and aflbciating thefe ideas with the 

 country itfelf, he calls it piSiurefque j by 

 which he means only that it pleafes him. 



Thus too in the grand, and fublime 



fcenes of nature, if there be any mixture of 



horror 



