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time it Should not be fuch a fweep, as dif- 

 eovers one fide plainly overbalanced. 



On bleak fea-coafts, trees generally take an 

 unbalanced form : and indeed in general, fome 

 foreign caufe muft operate to occafion it ; for 

 nature working freely, is as much inclined to 

 balance a tree upon it's trunk, as an animal 

 upon it's legs. 



And yet in fome circumstances, I have feen 

 beauty arife even from an unbalanced tree - y 

 but it muft arife from fome peculiar Situation, 

 which gives it a local propriety. A tree, for 

 inftance, hanging from a rock, tho totally 

 unpoifed, may be beautiful : or it may have a 

 good effect, when we fee it bending over a 

 road -, becaufe it correfponds with it's peculiar 

 fituation. We do not, in thefe cafes, admire 

 it as a tree ; but as the adjunct of an effect ; 

 the beauty of which does not give the eye 

 leifure to attend to the deformity of the inftru- 

 ment, through which the effect is produced. 



Without thefe requisites therefore, form, 

 light nefs y and a proper balance, no tree can 

 have that fpecies of beauty, which we call 

 pifturefque. 



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