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But before I enter on the fubjecl: it may not 

 be amifs to remind the reader once more*, that 

 as the vaft fcenes of extenfive forefts, which 

 we are now confidering as diftances, are not 

 fubjecl: to art, the idea of fuggefting rules to 

 after, and improve them, is abfurd. All we 

 mean, is, to endeavour to teach the eye to 

 admire juftly; and to apply to artificial land- 

 fcape, thofe obfervations, which occur in 

 natural: for the fource of beauty is the fame 

 in both. 



* Seepage 178. 



