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leaving patches of different hues, feams, and 

 cracks, which are often pidurefque. 



The chefnut in maturity and perfection, is a 

 noble tree ; and grows not unlike the oak. It's 

 ramification is more flraggling - y but it is eafy, 

 and it's foliage loofe. This is the tree, which 

 graces the landfcapes of Salvator Rofa. In the 

 mountains of Calabria, where Salvator painted, 

 the chefnut flouriflied. There he ftudied it in 

 all it's forms, breaking and difpofing it in a 

 thoufand beautiful fhapes, as the exigences of 

 his compofition required. I have heard indeed 

 that it is naturally brittle, and liable to be 

 mattered by winds j which might be one 

 reafon for Salvator's attachment to it. But 

 altho I have many times feen the chefnut in 

 England, old enough to be in a fruit-bearing 

 ftate ; yet I have feldom feen it in a ftate of 

 full picturefque maturity. The beft I have feen, 

 ftand on the banks of the Tamer in Cornwall, 

 at an old houfe, belonging to the Edgecumbe 

 family. I have heard alfo that at Beechworth- 

 caftle, in Surry, there are not fewer than feventy 

 or eighty chefnuts, meafuring from twelve to 

 eighteen or twenty feet in girth, and fome of 



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