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ing difcord ; tho on the other hand, it is 

 true, by foftening fome difcordant tint, it may 

 as eafily introduce a harmony, which did not 

 exift before. Here art comes to the aid of 

 nature. The pencil fixes the fcene in the 

 happy moment -, and the fading tints of autumn 

 become perennial. 



I have known fome planters endeavour, in 

 their improvements, to range their trees in 

 fuch a manner; as in the wane of the year, 

 to receive all the beauty of autumnal colouring. 

 The attempt is vain, unlefs they could fo 

 command the weather as to check, or produce 

 at pleafure, thofe tints, which nature hath 

 fubjected to fo many accidents. A general 

 direction is all that can be given. Oak is 

 rarely in difcord; but beech and elm can as 

 rarely be depended on. All mufl be left to 

 chance ; and after the utmoft that art can do, 

 the wild foreft, with it's cafual difcords, and 

 monotonies, will prefent a thoufand beauties, 

 which no fkill of man can rival. 



Thus the beauties of the waning year are 

 fixed rather by the weather, than by the 

 calendar. We often fee them vanifh in Octo- 

 ber : and we fometimes fee a fine autumnal effect 

 in the beginning of november: nay even later 



we 



