fandy bank, or a piece of rocky ground may 

 prevent the contiguity of trees, and fo make 

 an opening ; or a tree or two may have been 

 blafted, or have been cut down , or, what is 

 the happieft of all circumftances, a winding 



road may run along the wood, The fimple 



idea, which is varied through all thefe little 

 recefles, is the exhibition of a few trees, feen 

 behind others. The varieties of this mode 

 of fcenery, fimple as it is, are infinite. Na- 

 ture is wonderfully fertile. The invention of 

 the painter may form a competition more agree- 

 able to the rules of his art, than nature com- 

 monly produces : but no invention can reach 

 the varieties of particular objects, 



Waterlo delighted in thefe clofe forejl-fcenes. 

 He penetrated their retreats ; and when he 

 found a little opening, or recefs, that pleafed 

 him, he fixed it on the fpot. He ftudied it's 

 various forms how the bold protuberances of 

 an old trunk received the light, and made 

 how eafily the large boughs parted - y and how 

 negligently the fmaller were interwoven how 

 elegantly the foliage hung , and what va- 

 rious mapes it's little tuftings exhibited. All 

 thefe things he obferved, and copied with 

 exact attention. His landfcape, bare of objects, 



and 



