clutter-pines, or other clump-headed trees. 

 The fpiry-headed race, the fpruce-fir, the 

 iilver-fir and the Weymouth-pine, have here 

 too, as well as in the clump, a bad effect. 

 Single they are fometimes beautiful; or two 

 or three of them, here and there, by way of 

 contrail, in large plantations, may be pictu- 

 refque : but I think they are never fo in large 

 bodies. In general however the picture fque 

 eye is little curious with regard to the kind 

 of trees, which compofe a diftant fcene: for 

 there are few kinds, which do not harmonize 

 together. It matters more, in this bold ftile 

 of landfcape, that the maffes of each different 

 kind mould be large. The oppofition is then 

 flrongly marked; and the contraft ftriking. 

 If different trees are grouped in fmall bodies, the 

 effect is totally loft in diftance. 



The laft fpecies of permanent beauty, which 

 we take notice of in diftant foreft-fcenery, 

 arifes from works of art. We mean not the 

 embellifhments of art ; but fuch rude works, 

 as may almoft be ftiled the works of nature 

 the productions of convenience, rather than of 

 tafte. We certainly draw the moft picture fque 



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