view to improvement, the intention is often 

 fruftrated. It muft be done artfully, and con- 

 fiderately, or in general, your defign will be 

 fruftrated. The mafter of the fcene himfelf, 

 who is always on the fpot, and examines it 

 frequently from every ftand, if he be a man 

 of tafte, will be the beft improver, and direct 

 the felling axe with moft judgment. At the 

 fame time, we frequently fee trees cut down 

 carelefsly, for the purpofe of utility, which have 

 opened greater beauties, than any they poilefied 

 themfelves, when ftanding ; tho the precon- 

 ceived lofs of them was greatly lamented. 

 But this can only happen where trees a- 

 bound. 



I mail conclude this enumeration of the 

 incidental beauties belonging to foreft-fcenery, 

 with an appendage, which we frequently 

 fee in it that of a timber- wain, an object 

 of the moft picturefque kind, efpecially when 

 drawn by oxen. Here the tree when dead, 

 adorns again the landfcape, which it adorned 

 when living. A gilded chariot is an objecl, 

 which art has induftrioufly tricked out, and 

 decorated. It is of a piece therefore with 

 T 3 all 



