tiful, and we found the grand vifta better 

 fupported with wood. 



In wooded fcenes, like thefe, the plano- 

 convex-mirror, which was Mr. Gray's com- 

 panion in all his tours *, has a pleafmg effect. 

 Diftances indeed, reduced to fo fmall a furface, 

 are loft ; it is chiefly calculated for objects at 

 band"\-, which it fhews to more advantage. 



When we examine nature at large, we fludy 

 compofition, and effect. We examine alfo the 

 forms of particular objects. But from the 

 fize of the objects of nature, the eye cannot 

 perform both thefe operations at once. If it 

 be engaged in general effects, it poftpones 

 particular objects j and if it be fixed on parti- 

 cular objects, whofe forms, and tints it gathers 

 up with a palling glance from one to another, 

 it is not at leifure to obferve general effects. 



* See Gray's memoirs, page 352. 



J* Mr. Gray, on viewing the ruins of an abbey, fays, " They 

 were the trueft objefts of his glafs he had met with any where." 

 He does not indeed aflign the reafon ; but if he had confidered 

 it, he might have feen, it was, becaufe they prefeuted a happy 

 difplay of prefent objects. See his memoirs, page 380. 



But 



