But this view, like the other extenfiue views 

 we have feen, is by no means piflurefque. 

 It might have been fuppofed, that the ifle 

 of Wight (on furveying it's appearance in a 

 map) would have made fuch an angle at 

 Cowes-point, which is nearly oppofite to this 

 tower, as would have thrown the eaftern 

 part of the iiland into better perfpeftive, than 

 the weftern affumcs from any part of the 

 Hampfhire coaft. And fo indeed in fome 

 degree it does. But the eye is at too great 

 a diftance to get much advantage from this 

 circumftance. If the fpeftator were carried 

 nearer Cowes, the coaft towards St. Helen's 

 might then fall away in good perfpeftive. 

 But at this diftance all is fea ; the coaft is a 

 mere thread j and the whole view together is 

 without proportion. 



And yet it is not merely the difproportion 

 between land and water, which difqualifies 

 a view of this kind in a picturefque light. 

 A pifturefque view may confift intirely of 



water. Nor is it diftance, which difqua- 



lifies it. The moft remote diftances are 

 happily introduced on canvas. But what 

 chiefly difqualifies it, is the want of fore- 

 ground to balance this vaft expanfe of diftance. 



Unlefs 



