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in the grand diflance we have juft been fur-* 

 veying from Caftle-Malwood, a fog, or mift 

 can never introduce any great mifchief. It 

 comes gradually on ; and therefore only gra- 

 dually obfcures. It is the chafm, which occa- 

 fions the blank. At the fame time, notwith- 

 standing the ifland is not gradually connected 

 with the other parts of the country, the land- 

 fcape lofes in no other modification of the 

 atmofphere. If the mift be more general, fo 

 as to obfcure not only the ifland, but the 

 town alfo, and in proportion the nearer parts 

 of the view, the effect is often beautiful. The 

 woods of the eaftern bank being obfcured, 

 the firs of the lawn flanding much nearer, 

 rife ftrongly in oppofition : the eye is pleafed 

 with the contraft ; while the imagination is 

 pleafed alfo with diving into the obfcurity, 

 and forming it's own objects. 



The line alfo which the high grounds of 

 the ifland form upon the fky, is fometimes 

 ftrong, and fometimes faint ; fometimes alfo a 

 part of it is broken, or intercepted by clouds, 

 which gives a contraft to the other part. 



Again, the mift is fometimes fo light, that 

 it removes the ifland feveral leagues farther 

 from the eye: yet ftill the landfcape par- 



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