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beautiful forms. Art may admire, and at- 

 tempt to plant, and form combinations like 

 hers : but whoever examines the wild com- 

 binations of a foreft (which is a delightful 

 ftudy to a pidurefque eye) and compares 

 them with the attempts of art, has little 

 tafle, if he do not acknowledge with aftonifh- 

 ment, the fuperiority of nature's workman- 

 fhip. 



The artificial vifta again is rarely compofed 

 of more than one fpecies. It is the fir, the 

 lime, or the elm. But in the forefl-vifta 

 you have not only different kinds of trees in- 

 termixed 5 but buflies alfo, and underwood, 

 and wild plants of all kinds, which are 

 continually producing new varieties in every 

 part. 



Open groves too make another variety In 

 the foreft- vifta. In the woods between Bro- 

 kenhurft, and Lyndhurft, an open grove is 

 continued on the right, with little interrup- 

 tion, between the feventh and eightli ftones. 

 The woods on the left are chiefly clofe. 



Befides, thefe grand viftas are not only 

 varied with fuch fmaller openings, and recefies, 

 as are formed by the irregular growth of trees ; 

 they [are broken alfo by lawns, and tradts of 



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