But the leafy for eft is not folely the objeft 

 of incidental beauty. The pi&urefque eye finds 

 great amufement even in it's wintry-fcenes j 

 when it has thrown it's rich mantle afide, 

 and appears to the common eye naked, and 

 deformed. 



The hazy fun-mine of a frofty morning, 

 is accompanied with an indiftin&nefs peculiar 

 to itfelf. The common hazinefs of a fum- 

 mer-day fpreads over the landfcape one general 

 grey tint; and as we have had occafion to 

 remark in different circumftances, is often 

 the fource of great beauty. But the effecl: 

 we are here obferving, is of a different kind. 

 It is generally more partial more rich and 

 mixing with ftreaks of different coloured 

 clouds, which often form behind it, produces 

 a very pleafing effect. 



Great beauty alfo arifes in winter from the 

 different tints of the fpray. The dark brown 

 fpray of the birch, for inftance, has a good 

 effecl:, among that of a lighter tihge : and 

 when the forefl is deep, all this little bufhinefs 

 of ramification hath, in fome degree, the effecl: 

 of foliage. 



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