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taking of the general effett^ preferves it's har- 

 mony. 



Sometimes alfo, after a heavy mower, when 

 all the vapours are precipitated, as the rain 

 goes off, and the air becomes perfectly dia- 

 phanous, like an Italian iky, the ifland will 

 advance many leagues towards the eye : every 

 part of it will be perfectly confpicuous j even 

 the little divifions of property will appear 

 faintly fketched upon it : yet ftill the clearnefs 

 of the other parts of the landfcape according 

 with it, all will be in place, and a general 

 harmony preferred. 



Thefe are chiefly fummer-efFects. I have 

 often however feen beautiful effects in winter 

 of a fimilar kind ; efpecially in a morning 

 fomewhat inclining to froflj when the rays 

 of the fun have appeared, as it were, flrug- 

 gling between the hazinefs pf the ifland, the 

 fmoke of the town, and the fplendor of the 

 rifing fun. In one part diftinctnefs has prer 



vailed , in another, obfcurity. I have feen 



^Ifo fomething of the fame effect in a winter^ 

 noon -, only rendered perhaps frill more beau- 

 tiful by {breaks of ruddy fun-fet palling along 

 the horizon, and joining in the conflict. 



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