( '99 ) 





SECT. Ill 



FROM fcenes of art, let us haften to the 

 chief object of our purfuit, the wild fcenes 

 of nature the wood the copfe the glen and 

 open-grove. 



Under the term wood, we include every 

 extenfive combination of foreft-trees, in a Jlate 

 of nature. All fuch combinations, tho without 

 the privilege of forefts, compofe the fame kind 

 of fcenery. The defcription therefore of fuch 

 fcenes will come moil properly under the head 

 of for eft -views ; on which we (hall hereafter 

 dwell at large. At prefent let us examine the 

 fmaller combinations ; and firfl the copfe. 



The copfe is a fpecies of fcenery compofed 

 commonly of foreft-trees intermixed with brum- 

 wood; which latter is periodically cut down 

 in twelve, thirteen, or fourteen years. In it's 

 difmantled flate therefore, nothing can be more 

 O 4 forlorn 



