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priety brings us to acquiefce in the elegant, 

 and well-adapted embellifhments of art : but 

 the painter, who fhould introduce them on 

 canvas, would be characterized as a man void 

 of tafte; and utterly unacquainted with the 



objects of picturefque fele&ion. Such are 



the great materials, which we expect to find 

 in the fkirts, and internal parts of the foreft 

 trees of every kind, but particularly the oldeft, 



and rougheft of each. We examine next 



the mode of fcenery which cefults from their 

 combinations. 



In fpeaking of the glen*, we obferved that 

 the principal beauty of it arofe from thofe 

 little openings, or glades, with which it 

 commonly abounds. It is thus in the foreft- 

 woods. The great beauty of thefe clofe fcenes 

 arifes from the openings and receffes, which 

 we find among them. 



By thefe I do not mean the lawns, and 

 pafturage, which I mentioned as one of the 

 great divifions of foreft-fcenery-f- ; but merely 

 thofe little openings among the trees, which 

 are produced by various circumftances. A 



See page 205. f See page 210. 



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