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thoufand imaginary forms, if the fcene be 

 unknown; and as the light fteals gradually 

 on, is amufed by correcting it's vague ideas by 

 the real objects. What in the confufion of 

 twilight perhaps feemed a flretch of rifing 

 ground, broken into various parts, becomes 

 now vaft mafies of wood, and an extent of 

 foreft. 



As the fun begins to appear above the hori- 

 zon, another change takes place. What was 

 before only form, being now inlightened, 

 begins to receive ejfeffi. This effect depends 

 on two circumftances, the catching lights, 

 which touch the fummits of every object; 

 and the mijlinefs, in which the rifing orb is 

 commonly inveloped. 



The effect is often pleafmg, when the 

 fun rifes in unfullied brightnefs, diffufing it's 

 ruddy light over the upper parts of objects, 

 which is contrafted by the deeper lhadows 

 below : yet the effect is then only tranfcendent, 

 when he rifes, accompanied by a train of 

 vapours, in a mifty atmofphere. Among lakes 

 and mountains, this happy accompaniment 

 often forms the mofl aftoniming viiions : and 

 yet in the foreft it is nearly as great. With 

 what delightful effect do we fometimes fee the 



fun's 



