I have adorned thefe fcenes alfo with their 

 proper appendages, wild horfes, deer, and 



other pifturefque inhabitants. I might 



greatly have multiplied both my general and 

 particular remarks; but I fear I ought rather 

 to apologize for my redundancies, than my 

 omijjiom. 



I now clofe my obfervations with a figh 

 over the tranfitory ftate of the feveral fcenes, 

 I have defcribed. I mean not, with unphi- 

 lofophic weaknefs, to bemoan the perifhable 

 condition of fublunary things : but to lament 

 only, that, of all fublunary things, the wood- 

 land-fcene, which is among the mojl beautiful, 

 fhould be among the moft perijhable. 



Some fpecies of landfcape are of permanent 

 nature ; fuch particularly as depend on rocks, 

 mountains, lakes, and rivers. The ornamen- 

 tal appendages indeed of thefe fcenes, the 

 oaks, and elms, that adorn them, are of a 

 more tranfient kind. But the grand con- 

 flituent parts of them may be fuppofed coeval 

 with nature itfelf. Nothing lefs than fome 

 general convulfion can injure them. 



Such landfcape again as depends for beauty 

 on old caftles, abbeys, and other ruins, ge- 

 nerally efcapes for ages the depredations of 



time. 



