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tage through this medium -> Sometimes thefe 



mifts are partial -, and if they happen to 

 coincide with the competition of .the landfcape, 

 this partiality is attended with peculiar beauty. 

 I have remarked in other works of this 

 kind*, that when fome huge promontory 

 emerges from a fpreading mift, which hangs 

 over one part of it, it not only receives the 

 advantage of contraft, but it alfo becomes 

 an object of double grandeur. We often fee 

 the woods of the foreft alfo with peculiar 

 advantage, emerging through a mift in the 

 fame ftile of greatnefs. I have known like- 

 wife a nearer diftance, jlrongly illumined, 

 produce a good effecl: through a light drizzling 

 mower. 



Nearly allied to mifts is another incidental 

 appearance, that of fmoke, which is often 

 attended with peculiar beauty in woody fcenes. 

 When we fee it fpreading in the foreft 

 glade, and forming a foft bluifh back-ground 

 to the trees, which intercept it ; their 

 foliage, and ramification appear to great ad- 

 vantage. 



* See obfervations on Scotland, v. ii. p. 174. 



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