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fun; tho their characters are very different, 

 both in the lights, and fliadows. The ruddy 

 lights indeed of the evening are more eafily 

 diftinguifhed : but it is not perhaps always fuf- 

 fkiently obicrved, that the fhadows of the 

 evening are much lefs opaque, than thofe of 

 the morning. They may be brightened per- 

 haps by the numberlefs rays floating in the 

 atmofphere, which are inceflantly reverberated 

 in every direction -, and may continue in action 

 after the fun is fet. Whereas in the morning, 

 the rays of the preceding day having fubfided, 

 no object receives any light, but from the 

 immediate luftre of the fun. Whatever be- 

 comes of the theory, the fact, I believe, is 

 well afcertained. 



The incidental beauties, which the meridian 

 fun exhibits, are much fewer than thofe of 

 the rijing fun. In fummer, when he rides 

 high at noon, and fheds his perpendicular ray, 

 all is illumination : there is no ihadow to 

 balance fuch a glare of light , ' no contraft to 

 oppofe it. The judicious artift therefore rarely 

 reprefents his objects under a vertical fun. 

 And yet no fpecies of landfcape bears it fo well 

 as the fcenes of the foreft. The tuftings of 

 trees, which of all objects are the richeft, 



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