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The foreft-heath alfo, when it is level, 

 and bounded only by the horizon, has 

 no charms for the eye. When it confifts of 

 well-mixed inequalities of ground, it gains 

 fomewhat more upon us. But when it is 

 bounded by woods in various parts, and 

 interfperfed, here and there, with clumps, 

 which gently unite it's woody boundaries with 

 it's area, it becomes an interefting fcene. 

 Sometimes alfo a variety of furze, fern, and 

 other wild plants, ftain it, in many parts, 

 with beautiful tints. Often too a winding 

 road paffes through it; or different roads 

 traverfing each other. Herds of cattle alfo of 

 different kinds continually frequent it's open 

 plains : and when thefe circumftances happily 

 unite, the heath becomes one of the beautiful 

 fcenes of the foreft. 



As it is diftant wood however, on which the 

 foreft-lawn, and efpecially the foreft-heath 

 depend for their principal aid, I (hall dwell 

 a little on this copious fubjed: ; and fhall con- 

 fider it's moft pleafing circumftances under the 

 two heads of fuch as are permanent, and 

 fuch as are incidental. 



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