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jtiaintance with -colony, t.ir from blinding him to the 

 softer IxMutic.s or wilder grandeur of a landscape, really 

 quickens his perception of these charn -.ablcs 



him to take in at a glance the dominant features, and to 

 range the others in their orderly subsidiary pin- 

 that the harmony of the whole is sei/cd, and the impres- 

 sion which it makes is fixed upon the mind. It I may In- 

 allowed to make the comparison, it is with the apprecia- 

 tion of scenery as with the cultivation of miiM- . M<>-' 

 listeners of average education and intelligence thoroughly 

 enjoy a sonata of Beethoven ; they listen to a harmonious 

 variety of sound, and perhaps at the close awake almost 

 out of dreamland. And yet, high as is their enjoyment, 

 it can hardly equal that of the musician who recojj 

 as movement succeeds movement, the skill and genius of 

 the composer who could so vary and amplify some simple 

 theme, and while seeming to abandon himself to a tumul- 

 tuous torrent of sound could keep every portion of the 

 work under the strictest rules of art, and with a breadth 

 and harmony that bind the composition into one inaunih 

 cent whole. 



Should the traveller abroad find himself with leisure 

 sufficient not merely to look at the scenery but to examine 

 the rocks which form its groundwork, he will again find 

 his experience at home stand him in good stead and give 

 fresh interest to his journey. He will encounter other 

 and often better illustrations of phenomena with which 

 he has already become practically familiar. He will 

 I>erhaps meet with facts which throw a bright light 

 on questions that had long puzzled him in his own 

 country. Or he may see for the first time, and with a 



