374 A TOUR ROUND NORTH WALES. 



Vivid green, 



Warm brown, and black opake the foreground bears 



Confpicuous ; fober olive coldly marks 



The fecond diftance. Thence the third declines 



In fofter blue, or lefs'ning (till, is loft 



In fainteft purple. 



During my walk along the vale, I ob r 

 ferved, in different places, feveral men 

 bufily employed in cutting down the trees, 

 and could not help filently lamenting that 

 the practice of taking away the timber 

 fhould be fo general, not only in this 

 country, but, as I fome years ago was 

 forry to obferve, even throughout all the 

 North of England, and about the lakes. 

 Avarice or diffipation, and it's conftant 

 follower, poverty, have defpoiled the Prin- 

 cipality of nearly all it's leafy beauties. 

 Depriving fcenery of wood, is ruinous to 

 piciurefque beauty -, and if the owners of 

 land do but go on in the manner they have 



done, 



