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tree, as to fee nature in decay : but at a diftance 



the withered effect is not eafily difcerned. 



In the wane of autumn however there are other 

 defeats. The am, and fome other trees, have 

 deferted their ftation , in the foreft : they 

 have med their leaves, and left a cheerlefs 



blank. Befides, the verdure of the foreft 



is too much wafted ; and the brown, and 

 yellow tints, beautiful as they are, become too 

 predominant : for the prevalence of thefe hues 

 in autumn, fatigues the eye no lefs than the 

 prevalence of green in fummer. Only indeed 

 the autumnal tints will ever be more varied. 

 The intermediate time is the feafon of pic- 

 turefque beauty; when the greens, and the 

 browns, and the yellows, are blended together 

 by a variety of middle tints, which often create 

 the moft exquilite harmony. 



Of all the hues of autumn, thofe of the oak 

 are commonly the moft harmonious. As it's 

 vernal tints are more varied, than thofe of 

 other trees j fo are it's autumnal. In an 

 oaken wood you fee every variety of green, 

 and every variety of brown ; owing either to 

 the different expofure of the tree ; it's different 

 foil -, or it's different nature : but it is not my 

 bufmefs to enquire into caufes. 



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