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turefque horror^ wood is by no means a neceffary 

 appendage. It is rather indeed an improper 

 one. Flourifhing wood at leaft is out of 

 place : the fcene might perhaps admit, here 

 and there, a fcathed, and ragged pine. 



Ideas of beauty too are as often miftaken, 

 as ideas of horror. Major Rennell, in his ac- 

 count of India, tells us, that " In Hin- 

 " dooftan the hills, and eminences being al- 

 " ways covered with wood, that beautiful 

 " fwelling of the ground, fo juftly admired 

 " in European landfcape, is loft; and the 

 " fancy is prefented at beft with nothing 

 < beyond a wild fcene, which can only be 

 " reli ilied by being contrafted with a foft, 

 " and beautiful one." That there might be 

 great famenefs, and of courfe little beauty, 

 in the wooded hills of Hindooftan, I don't 

 difpute. All I mean to combat, is the ma- 

 jor's pofition, that a wild fcene can have no 

 inherent beauty; but that it's beauty at all 

 times muft arife from contrail. 



Beyond 3eaulieu our boat could not pafs. 

 Thus far only the tide flows with any force. 



At 



