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eminence : the curtailed trunk difcovers the 

 whole : while the lateral branches, which are 

 vigorous, and healthy in both, hide any part of 

 the lower landfcape, which wanting variety, 

 is better veiled. 



For the ufe, and beauty of the withered top, 

 and curtailed trunk, we need only appeal to 

 the works of Salvator Rofa, in many of 

 which we find them of great ufe. Salvator 

 had often occafion for an object on his fore- 

 grounds, as large as the trunk of a tree , when 

 the whole tree together in it's full ftate of 

 grandeur, would have been an incumbrance 

 to him. A young tree, or a bufh, might 

 probably have ferved his purpofe with regard 

 to compq/ition -, but fuch dwarfs, and ftriplings 

 could not have preferved the dignity of his 

 fubjecl:, like the ruins of a noble tree. Thefe 

 fplendid remnants of decaying grandeur fpeak 

 to the imagination in a flile of eloquence, 

 which the {tripling cannot reach : they record 

 the hiftory of fome ftorm, fome blaft of 

 lightening, or other great event, which tranf- 

 fers it's grand ideas to the lanfcape ; and in 

 the reprefentation of elevated fubje&s affifts the 

 fublime. 



Whether 



