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town has often a good effect. Thefe 



fplendid lights of the evening-fun upon the 

 cliffs and broken fhores the ifland, appear firft 

 about the beginning of april ; but they grow 

 flronger, as the power of the fun increafes. 

 Various other tints alfo of a bluifh, purplifh, 

 and ycllowifh hue, the effects of evening-funs 

 in fummer, occafionally invert the ifland. 



But hazinefs, and mifts are here, as in 

 other places, great fources of variety. In 

 general, they have a good effect ; but fome- 

 time a bad one. As the remote part of the 

 landfcape, which confifls of the ifle of Wight, 

 does not immediately connect with the woods 

 on one fide, and the town of Lymington on 

 the other, but is feparated from them by the 

 channel, which is about two, or three leagues 

 acrpfs, it of courfe happens, that when a 

 partial fog removes the iiland alone from the 

 fight, a violent chafm is left in the land- 

 fcape : there is no gradation > the rifmg 

 grounds, on which Lymington ftands, appear 

 flaring againft a foggy fky without any fup- 

 port of diflance. Nothing can mew more 

 ftrongly the ufe of diftances, in compleating 

 the harmony of a view. When the feveral 

 parts of a country melt into each other, as 



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