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Some of the chief modes of incidental 

 beauty, which vary thefe few parts of land- 

 fcape, are thefe: 



In a morning the effect is often beautiful, 

 when the fun rifing over the trees of the eaftern 

 bank, pours his floping rays upon their tufted 

 heads ; while all the bottom of the valley, 

 having not yet caught the fplendor, is dufky, 

 and obfcure*. 



The effect ftill continues beautiful, as the 

 fun afcends. Some prominent part of the 

 woody-fkreen always catches the light ; while 

 the receffes among the trees ftill hold the 

 depth of the morning-fhadow. 



The difpofition of the landfcape is as well 

 adapted to receive the effects of an evening, as 

 of a morning-fun* As all the eaftern Ikreen 

 is richly, and picturefquely wooded, the illu- 

 mination of the trees from the weft is generally 

 pleafing; efpecially as the meadows, de- 

 fcending to the eaft, and fouth, and of courfe 

 declining from the fummer-fun, prefent large 

 maffes of fhade. 



But the effect of light is beft feen in an 



evenmg-ftorm, when it rifes from the eaft, 







* See an effect of this kind defcribed more at length, vol. i. 

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