SECT. IX. 



HAVING thus coniidered what may pro- 

 perly be called the permanent beauties 

 of diftant foreft-fcenery, we proceed to it's 

 incidental beauties. Thefe arife principally 

 from two caufes j the 'weather, and the fea- 

 fons. As both are changeable, they both 

 produce various appearances. The former 

 affects chiefly the Jky : the latter, the earth. 



The weather is a fruitful fource of /- 

 cidental beauty ; and there are few ftates 

 of it, which do not imprefs fome peculiar 

 and pi&urefque character on landfcape, to 



which it gives the leading tint. A country 



is chiefly affected by the weather, when it 



is hazy, and mijly or when the iky is inverted 



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