horror in them (which often adds greatly 

 to the pi&urtfque effect.) the aifociated ideas 

 of unhappinefs cloud the fcene, and make it 

 difplcafing. 



I mean not, when a perfon is among objects, 

 which in their remote confequences give 

 delight; or in the midft of fcenes, which 

 are connected with diftrefs ; that he fhould 

 not feel the natural impreffions they make 

 all I mean is, to inveftigate the fonrces 

 of beauty j to limit the different modes of 

 pleafure, and pain ; to feparate caufes, and 

 effects-, and to evince that a fcene, tho it 

 abound with circumftances of horror ; may be 

 very pifturefque j while another may be intirely 

 the reverfe -, tho replete with incidents, that 

 produce joy and happinefs. 



I have an inftance at hand to my purpofe. 

 One of our voyagers* to the northern feas, in 



failing up a river, thus defcribes the fcene. 



" The country, fays he, on each fide, was 

 very romantic ; but unvaried ; the river run- 

 ning between mountains of the rnoft craggy 

 and barren afpecl ; where there was nothing 



* Capt, King who fuccceded capt. Cook, p. 207. 



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