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duced between it's fpiry points, and the 

 round-headed oaks, and elms in it's neigh- 

 bourhood. When I fpeak however of the 

 Scotch fir as a beautiful individual, I conceive 

 it, when it has out-grown all the more un- 

 pleafant circum fiances of it's youth when it 

 has compleated it's full age and when, like 

 Ezekiel's cedar, it has formed it's head among 

 the thick branches. I may be fingular in my 

 attachment to the Scotch fir : I know it has 

 many enemies : and that may perhaps induce 

 me to be more compafiionate to it : however I 

 wim my opinion in it's favour may weigh 

 no more, than the reafons I give to fupport it. 



The great contempt indeed, in which the 

 Scotch fir is commonly held, arifes, I believe, 

 from two caufes. 



People object firft to it's colour. It's dark, 



murky hue, we are told, is unpleafmg. With 



regard to dolour in general, I think I fpeak the 

 language of painting, when I aflert, that the 

 pi&urefque eye makes little distinction in this 

 matter. It has no attachment to one colour 

 in preference to another : but confiders the 

 beauty of all colouring, as refulting not from 

 the colours themfelves, but almoft intirely 

 from their harmony with other colours in 



their 



