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Sometimes alfo a winter-fun produces effects 

 in this, as in many other landfcapes, which a 

 fummer-fun cannot exhibit. In a meridian- 

 hour, for inftance, when the fummer-fun rides 

 aloft, it difpenfes it's rays perpendicularly over 

 various parts of a landfcape, on which the 

 winter-fun from the fame meridian throws a 

 horizontal ray with better effecl. And it may 

 often happen, that a landfcape may be im- 

 proved in many parts by a winter fhadow, 

 inftead of a fummer light. 



In the year 1783, when fuch uncommon 

 fogs prevailed over Europe, the appearances of 

 the ifland were often very ftrange. Earth, 

 clouds, and water, confounded together in vaft 

 combinations, feemed often to have exchanged 

 places ; the water would appear above the 

 ifland i and the clouds below both. But 

 thefe appearances were fo uncommon, that 

 they fcarce deferve mention ; nor indeed were 

 they often in themfelves picturefque. 



I omit dwelling on the variety, which the 

 feafons produce on this landfcape, as the fubject 

 has been examined before*; tho as it is a 



* See vol. i. page 265. 



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