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After all however, we mean not to repudiate 

 even the heavy, luxuriant beech in pi&urefque 

 compofition. It has fometimes it's beauty, 

 and oftener it's ufe. In diftance it preferves 

 the depth of the foreft* ; and even on the 

 fpot, in contraft, it is frequently a choice 

 accompaniment. In the corner of a landfcape, 

 when we want a thick heavy tree, or part 

 of one at leaft, which is often necefTary, 

 nothing anfwers our purpofe like the beech. 

 But at prefent we are not confidering the beech 

 in compofition ; but only as an individual -, 

 and in this light it is, in which we chiefly con- 

 ceive it as an objedt of difapprobation. 



We mould not conclude our remarks on 

 the beech without mentioning it's autumnal 

 hues. In this refpecl: it is often beautiful. 

 Sometimes it is drefled in modeft brown ; but 

 generally in glowing orange : and in both 

 drefles it's harmony with the grove, is pleafing. 

 About the end of feptember, when the leaf 

 begins to change, it makes a happy contraft 

 with the oak, whofe foliage is yet verdant. 



* We call the foreft deep, when we cannot fee through it ; fo 

 that at a diftance a thin wood of beeches will have the effeft 

 of a large one. 



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