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ture exhibits j but are evidently affecled by the 

 two furfaces of the mirror, which give them 

 a flatnefs, fomething like the fcenes of a play- 



houfe, retiring behind each other* The 



convex-mirror alfo diminimes diftances beyond 

 nature, for which the painter mould always 

 make proper allowance. Or, to fpeak more 

 properly, it inlarges the objects in the center, 

 and diminimes thofe of the extremities. Thus, 

 if you look at your face in a Ipeculum of this 

 kind, you will fee your nofe magnified: and 

 the retiring parts of your face of courfe di- 

 minifhed. 



About a mile beyond the woody fummit 

 we had patted, we entered another forefl-lawn, 

 which tho very confined, has it's beauty, as 

 all thefe openings muft have, however con- 

 fined, if furrounded with ancient wood. But 

 about half a mile farther, where the Rumfey, 

 and Salifbury roads divide, another forefl-lawn 

 of much larger dimenfions, prefents itfelf. 

 This is very fpacious, well hung with wood, 

 and (what in all thefe fcenes adds greatly to 

 their beauty) adorned in various parts with 

 woody promontories mooting into it; and 



clumps, 



