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The boles of trees like wife, and all their 

 larger limbs, add, at this feafon, a rich variety, 

 and contrail to the forefl ; the fmooth and the 

 rough, the light and the dark, often beauti- 

 fully oppoiing each other. In winter, the jiem 

 predominates, as the leaf in fummer. It is 

 amu/ing in one feafon to fee the branches 

 loling, and difcovering themfelves among 

 the foliage ; and it is amufing alfo, in the 

 other, to walk through the defolate fore ft, 

 and fee the various combinations of ftem 

 the traveding of branches acrofs each other, 

 in fo many beautiful directions and the pains, 

 which nature takes in forming a wood, as well 

 as a Jingle tree*. She leaves no part unclofedj 

 but puming in the branch, or the fpray, as 

 the opening allows, fhe fills all vacant fpace ; 

 and brings the heads of the trees, which grow 

 near each other, into contact ; while every 

 ftep we take, prefents us with fome beau- 

 tiful variety in her mode of forming the fretted 

 roof, under which we walk. 



In winter too the effect of ever-greens is 

 often pleating. Holly, when it happens to 



* See page 106. 



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