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and on the other to a park. The experiment 

 is very common in optics. Here you might 

 discover the waves and fluctuations of the 

 water in strong and proper colors, with the 

 picture of a ship entering at one end, and sail- 

 ing by degrees through the whole piece. On 

 another there appeared the green shadows of 

 trees, waving to and fro with the wind, and 

 herds of deer among them in miniature, leap- 

 ing about upon the wall. I must confess the 

 novelty of such a sight may be one occasion 

 of its pleasantness to the imagination, but cer- 

 tainly the chief reason is its near resemblance 

 to nature, as it does not only, like other pic- 

 tures, give the color and figure, but the mo- 

 tion of the things it represents. 



We have before observed that there is gener- 

 ally in nature something more grand and 

 august than what we meet with in the curi- 

 osities of art. When, therefore, we see this 

 imitated in any measure, it gives us a nobler 

 and more exalted kind of pleasure than what 

 we receive from the nicer and more accurate pro- 

 ductions of art. On this account our English 

 gardens are not so entertaining to the fancy as 

 those in France or Italy, where we see a large 

 extent of ground covered over with an agreeable 

 mixture of garden and forest, which represent 

 everywhere an artificial rudeness, much more 



