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SECT. VI. 



HAVING thus confidered various kinds of 

 woody fcenery, and traced the peculiar 

 beauties of each -, we proceed next to thefore/t, 

 which in a manner comprehends them all. 

 There are few extenfive forefts, which do not 

 contain, in fome part or other, a fpecimen of 

 every fpecies of woody-landfcape. The wild 

 foreft-view indeed differs eflentially from the 

 embellifhed one ; tho fometimes we find even 

 the foreft-lawn in a polifhed ftate, when 

 browzed by deer into a fine turf, and fur- 

 rounded by ftately woods. Beauty however 

 is not the charadteriftic of the foreft. It's 

 peculiar diftin&ion is grandeur, and dignity. 

 The fcenes we have hitherto confidered, are 

 all within the reach of art -, and in fad:, have 

 all been the objects of improvement. But the 

 foreft difdains all human culture. On it the 



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