deavour by amplification, to make the ideas 

 contained under it, as diftincl. as I can. 



We diftinguifh then two kinds of clumps ; 

 the jmaller, and the larger -, confining the 

 former chiefly to the foreground*, and con- 

 fidering the latter as the ornament of a dif- 

 tance. 



With regard to the fmaller clump, it's chief 

 beauty arifes from contrajl in the parts. We 

 have feen that in Jingle trees, each muft have 

 it's chara&eriftic beauty. It has nothing elfe 

 to depend on. But in combination, the beauty 

 of the individual is not required , the whole 

 clump together muft produce the efFecl:. 



To enumerate all the fources of beautiful 

 contraft, which contribute to produce this 

 effect, might be difficult. I mail curforily 

 fuggeft a few. 



In the firft place the relative fituation of 

 trees, with regard to each other, mould be 

 confidered. Three trees, or more, ftanding in 

 a line, are formal. In the natural wood, you 



rarely fee this formality. And yet even 



three trees in a line will be greatly affifted by 

 the different directions of the feveral trunks; 



and 



