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SECT. II. 



nPREES when young, like ftriplings, (hoot 

 -u- into taper forms. There is a lightnefs, 

 and an airinefs in them, which is pleafing ; 

 but they do not fpread, and receive their juft 

 proportions, till they have attained their full 

 growth. 



There is as much difference too in trees, (I 

 mean in trees of the fame kind,) in point of 

 beauty, as there is in human figures. The 

 limbs of fome are fet on awkwardly ; their 

 trunks are difproportioned -, and their whole 

 form is unpleafing. The fame rules, which 

 eftablim elegance in other objects, eftablifh it 

 in thefe. There muft be the fame harmony 

 of parts ; the fame fweeping line -, the fame 

 contraft ; the fame eafe and freedom. A bough 

 indeed may ifTue from it's trunk at right-angles, 

 and yet elegantly, as it frequently does in the 

 oak ; but it muft immediately form fome 

 B 2 contrafting 



