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forlorn than the copfe. The area is covered 

 with bare roots, and knots, from which the 

 brum-wood has been cut ; while the foreft- 

 trees, intermingled among them, prefent their 

 ragged items, defpoiled of all their lateral 

 branches, which the luxuriance of the fur- 

 rounding thickets had choked. 



In a very fhort time however all this injury, 

 which the copfe hath fuffered, is repaired. 

 One winter only fees it's difgrace. The next 

 fumrrfer produces luxuriant moots > and two 

 fummers more reftore it almoft to perfect 

 beauty. 



It matters little of what fpecies of wood the 

 copfe is compofed, for as it feldom, at beft, 

 exhibits a fcene of picturefque beauty, we 

 rarely expect more from it, than a mady 

 fequeftered path ; which it generally furnimes 

 in great perfection. It is among the luxuries 

 of nature, to retreat into the cool recefles of 

 the full grown copfe from the feverity of a 

 meridian fun -, and be ferenaded by the hum- 

 ming infects of the made ; whofe continuous 

 fong has a more refreming found, than the 

 buzzing vagrant fly, which wantons in the 

 glare of day ; and, as Milton exprefTes it, 



. winds her fultry horn. 



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